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The Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) is set to deploy a team of covert "ambience ambassadors" to identify and apprehend people who litter in the city as part of efforts to improve sanitation.
Speaking on Saturday during the launch of the mandatory monthly National Cleaning Day, KCCA Executive Director Hajjat Sharifah Buzeki said the undercover ambassadors will discreetly monitor public spaces and hold offenders accountable for indiscriminate littering.
Buzeki said the introduction of the ambassadors forms part of broader efforts to enforce cleanliness in the capital and encourage residents to take greater responsibility for proper waste disposal.
She added that the National Cleaning Day has also revitalised Weyonje, KCCA's weekly clean-up campaign held every Saturday to promote cleanliness and public health across Kampala.
According to Buzeki, Kampala's sanitation challenges are worsened by waste flowing into the city from surrounding metropolitan areas. She said the nationwide monthly clean-up initiative is expected to reduce the volume of garbage entering the capital while improving environmental hygiene.
Despite the generally positive public response to the inaugural National Cleaning Day, large heaps of garbage remained along roads in several parts of Kampala throughout the weekend as residents awaited waste collection.
In Kawempe Division, piles of waste were visible along several roads following the exercise.
KCCA spokesperson Daniel Nuwabine acknowledged that the first National Cleaning Day had generated unusually large volumes of waste across the city.
He said the exercise exposed the extent of garbage accumulation in many communities, suggesting that some residents had been living with significant amounts of waste in their homes and neighbourhoods.
Nuwabine said KCCA, working with private waste collection companies, had intensified operations to clear all the waste generated during the exercise and restore cleanliness across the city.
Meanwhile, Buzeki welcomed the additional government funding recently allocated to KCCA, saying it would strengthen the authority's waste management capacity.
She revealed that part of the funding will be used to rehabilitate the Buyala dumpsite, which receives large volumes of waste from Kampala and the Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area.
Buzeki added that KCCA will also acquire additional garbage collection trucks to improve waste collection and disposal services across the city, as the authority seeks to build on the momentum created by the newly introduced mandatory monthly National Cleaning Day.
