KOTA KINABALU: The move by the Kota Kinabalu City Hall (DBKK) to take offenders under the Anti-Litter By-Law 2005 to court is its
latest effort to educate the people on public cleanliness, said its Enforcement Director Abdul Mukti Muchlish.
He said this was the latest step by the agency instead of just issuing compounds to offenders, besides the awareness and gotong royong (community collective effort) campaigns organised by DBKK.
“This is the first time DBKK has taken the offenders to court as previously, we only issued compounds. The Kampung Sembulan case is critical from the cleanliness aspect. DBKK organised a series of gotong royong (campaigns) there and last year held a cleanliness campaign, spending thousands on the villagers, but the level of cleanliness was still not satisfactory,” he said.
Abdul Mukti was speaking to reporters when commenting on DBKK’s decision to charge five people from Kampung Sembulan at the Sessions Court yesterday under the Anti-Litter By-Law 2005.
“This is a positive development. All the houses (of the individuals charged yesterday) have been cleaned,” he said.