By Sadique Bamwita
Kampala
The Deputy Executive Director Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), Moses Benon Kigenyi has arrested a senior manager at Total Energies for allegedly acting like a real public nuisance after releasing large amounts of sewage into the drainage channel.
The arrested officer is the manager at Kiwatule Total Energies.
According to the deputy ED, the Total Energies manager did the unthinkable after releasing heavy volumes of human waste into a sewer line, resulting into it’s blockage.
Kigenyi noted that the brutal action by the Total Energies manager exposed the community to health risks including a possibility of causing a cholera outbreak in the neighborhood.
Kigenyi who officially launched this year’s Annual Weyonje sanitation challenge in Nakawa Division, noted that the manager Total Energies Kiwatule branch, was arrested for releasing sewege in the neighborhood, adding that wastes from the fuel filling station had blocked a sewer line which KCCA team successfully unblocked .
Kigenyi expressed grave concern against people who dump garbage in drainage channels during rain season, saying this leads to flooding in the affected communities.
Kigenyi pledged to push for an ordinance penalizing those who litter garbage anywhere, urging Kiwatule locals to report whoever dumps garbage into the drainage channels.
Meanwhile, Kigenyi also closed Spice Building.
He said his KCCA team discovered a woman who was operating a restaurant but lacked a toilet facility for her staff and customers.
“All the restaurant staff were apprehended and will appear before City Hall court this week. We discovered cooks were sleeping in the same restaurant and to make matters worse we found buckets of faeces and urine inside the restaurant. Because of this , I have closed the restaurant to save locals in Ntinda zone from consuming unsafe food which could expose them to heath risks, ” Kigenyi explained .
Kigenyi urged locals to place wastes like plastic bottles, papers and peels into one polythene bag saying this would fetch them some money .
The Director Public Health and Environment at KCCA, Dr.Sarah Zalwango, warned locals who habitually pile heaps of garbage on the roadside, saying they risk being arrested and prosecuted in courts of Laws.
Dr.Zalwango explained that the Authority decided to eliminate community dump kits because they were promoting illegal dumpsites.
Dr.Zalwango further said she was unimpressed with level of sanitation in Nakawa Division, urging local leaders to mobilize people into sanitation initiatives, so as to avoid a repeat of being last in this year’s Weyonje sanitation challenge.
Dr.Zalwango who also led locals into tree planting exercise at Kalinabiri primary school, said in this year’s Weyonje sanitation challenge, the authority will conduct random sampling on toilets to establish whether people empty their toilets or not.
The Deputy Speaker Nakawa Division, Catherine Rose Mpayenda, cautioned landlords in her division who operate rentals without toilets ,urging locals to report them to the relevant authorities.She pledged to work closely with the area LC1 Chairpersons to apprwhend such landlords .
