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Uganda: LCs Can Conserve the Environment
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New Vision (Kampala)
OPINION
14 May 2008
Posted to the web 15 May 2008
New Vision's Editor
Kampala
IT is the responsibility of district heads and local leaders to conserve the environment. They are in charge of ensuring that garbage is properly disposed of. They are also responsible for enforcing the protection of wetlands such as the Nakivubo Channel in Kampala. Local leaders must ensure that environment hazzards such as pollution do not occur.
In many areas, local leaders have failed to enforce these roles. Garbage is not collected for months and wetlands are encroached upon. Excuses such as lack of funds do not hold water, even in areas where by-laws on improper garbage dumping exist are rarely enforced. Local Leaders must ensure that the population heeds to these regulations.
As far as encroaching on wetlands and restricted green areas is concerned, local leaders should stop developers from constructing in such areas.
Local leaders also blame environment mismanagement on social and political pressures, but this can be mitigated by following the regulations to the letter. In cases where an area has to be de-gazetted, like the case is in Kooki, it should be done under the law.
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