Order In The City! KCCA Arrests Many For Walking In It’s Grass! Traders Selling Clothes, Shoes Without Sacks To Collect Their Packaging Garbage Are Next In The Line!
By Henry MULINDWA
Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) headed by Executive Director Sharifah Buzeki has embarked on an operation aimed at restoring and maintaining all green zones within the City. As such, anyone who steps in any of KCCA green belts will join others already behind bars and are awaiting formal charging in court of law.
Similarly, according to KCCA, traders fond of selling their merchandise mainly new clothes along the streets but without a sack designated for collecting rubbish from their merchandise risk being arrested!
This is a directive from KCCA Executive Director Sharifah Buzeki whose desire to make the City cleaner and beautiful for everyone to live and work in it is leaving no stone unturned.
Already, several people have been arrested and taken to City Hall Court after being caught by law enforcement teams while walking in the green portions where KCCA plants grass and flowers to beautify the city.
In one of the operations conducted along Nile Avenue, a boda boda cyclist was caught red-handed sturbbonly peeing on an electric pole located within the KCCA grass area. The law enforcement agents were kind enough to let him finish his ‘business’ first before going for him in full detail!
The enforcement greeted him first, before asking him if he knew that he had committed a crime. Holding his helmet, the man looked extremely shocked and couldn’t run either, as his motorcycle parked along the road was already in their hands.
“We don’t want people to step in KCCA green zones, if you’re caught, we shall arrest and charge you” the law enforcement team explained to an already surrendered cyclist.
He was asked to board the KCCA truck and whisked away for possible prosecution.
In another operation conducted within the City center along Namirembe road, the KCCA team netted several people including a lady. These were also caught red-handed as they stepped in the green zones. There was drama as the teams went for a certain male offender. This unidentified pot-bellied man wearing a t-shirt tried to take to his heels, but his massive weight betrayed him and was also grabbed.
Another operation targeted traders who sell their merchandise along the streets. These ones according to KCCA have a tendency of leaving all their rubbish in places where they sell from. Much of the rubbish are kavera (polythene) which they remove from the clothes and simply dump them anywhere.
The law enforcement team reached out to this group of traders and asked them to sweep the whole place while explaining why it’s important to keep a cleaner City.
The traders were asked to always have a sack designated for collecting their rubbish which they remove from the clothes.
“We want you to have sacks where to collect your garbage. If you don’t have it, you will be arrested” the enforcement team cautioned the traders. Here, no arrests were made as it all appeared to be an awareness campaign to the traders.
The enforcement team even helped the traders to show them how to collect their rubbish but with stricter warnings to them not to operate again without sacks to put every form of garbage from their merchandise.
“We thank madam ED Sharifah Buzeki for this [Weyonje] campaign. She warned that whoever steps in KCCA grass should be reprimanded. This should be a lesson to all those who come to Kampala. Let’s use gazzeted walkways. Don’t walk in the grass because KCCA invests a lot of tax payers money to maintain those zones. Let’s maintain discipline and we’re behind the ED in this campaign” the traders said.
They also thanked her for the humane way her enforcement team handled the offenders even as they had committed a crime.
“It used to be a different approach those days. Guys were even carrying batons and always carried handcuffs. That wasn’t enforcement but brutality. If the new ED continues with this new approach, people will understand and implement her directives with or without the presence of enforcement teams” the traders said.
Hajati Sharifah Buzeki recently launched the ‘Weyonje campaign’ and urged city residents and those working in it to be responsible in disposing of garbage.
She asked them to keep their places of work clean, arguing that irresponsible dumping of garbage leads to floods as drainage channels get blocked.
SOURCE: www.theinspector.co.ug
