By; Olivia Nabaggala
Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) is set to arrest landlords or lock buildings in the city that lack adequate toilets to reduce the increasing indiscipline of open defecation.
This has been revealed by the KCCA Manager for Solid Waste and Environment Management, Dr. Najib Lukooya at City Hall in Kampala.
He says that they have embarked on sensitizing Ugandans especially landlords on sanitation guidelines and also explore sustainable solutions for all water and sanitation challenges in the city.
Dr. Lukooya also adds that once that is done, they are to implement the Public Health Act which allows KCCA to lock any building in Kampala that lack minimum sanitation services or arrest a land lord and be charged in courts of law.
He says that Rubaga has now been discovered as the most congested division followed by Kawempe and it has the highest number of cases of open deification in the district of Kampala based on the three year research.
According to KCCA research, for the last three years open defecation has reduced with now standing at 2 percent. KCCA is targeting to reduce it at 1 percent by 2018.
This comes at a time when KCCA has organized a three day sensitization program for water sanitation and hygiene that will kick off from November 29th to December 1st this year at railway grounds under the theme; “Sanitation a viable business in Kampala.”
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