Maintain your buildings, Mayor tells owners

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Madingkir (left) inspecting Medan Sri Selera at Kampung Air Sedco.

KOTA KINABALU: Building owners in the city centre have been advised to cooperate with the local authority to maintain their building structures and repair any damages to ensure its safety and cleanliness.

Kota Kinabalu City Mayor, Datuk Abidin Madingkir, said the maintenance includes repairing any leaking sewers, pipelines and culverts.

“Under the Land (Subsidiary Title) Enactment 1972, building owners or management corporation are responsible to maintain their properties. However, the maintenance works should not only focus on safety and cleanliness but also in term of beautification, orderliness and well-being.

“Kota Kinabalu City Hall have implemented various activities including Ops 5K to ensure the success of the 5K Programme. However, we need everyone, including NGOs and the public, to cooperate with us,” he said to reporters when inspecting Ops 5K at Medan Sri Selera at Kampung Air Sedco, yesterday.

5K refers to Keindahan, Kebersihan, Keselamatan, Keteraturan dan Kesejahteraan (Beautification, Cleanliness, Safety, Orderliness and Well-being).

Meanwhile, Ops 5K is an on-going operations by City Hall which includes various activities such as cleaning staircases, prevent illegal dumping, cleaning dumping sites, canopies and drains, checking chimneys, toilets and grease trap at food premises, and to compound those who are doing cleaning on the side walks, repair manholes or slabs, checking illegal partitions, serving notice for any illegal structures and also to compound litterbugs.

From January to July this year, a total of 306 compounds were issued by the City Hall to litterbugs.

Although the implementation of the 5K Programme has been expanded to the sub-urban areas, Madingkir said, it is important to continue the programme, especially with the increasing number of tourist arrivals to the state via Kota Kinabalu.

He added that building owners in Kampung Air, Bandaran Berjaya, Sinsuran Complex, Gaya Street, Jalan Pantai and Segama have also been advised not to make any changes to their building structures without approval from City Hall, otherwise action will be taken under the Building By-Laws 1951.

Madingkir also urged restaurant and food stall owners to ensure their grease traps meet the specifications and not to do any cleaning or serving food on the side walks.

About 120 City Hall officers and personnel were involved at the Ops 5K yesterday. Also present were City Hall deputy director general, Joannes Solidau and cleanliness and health director Robert Lipon.