Straight to court for litterbugs
Published on: Friday, September 30, 2016
Kota Kinabalu: Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Tan Sri Richard Malanjum will showcase a cleaner Sembulan as what members of the judiciary could contribute in collaborative partnership with the local government for the betterment of society when he convene a meeting of magistrates here next month (tentatively Friday Oct 21).Mayor Datuk Yeo Boon Hai said this at a recent seminar and that City Hall (DBKK) will no longer just simply summons littering offenders and squatters responsible for dirty and unkempt settlements which pose health and fire hazards. Instead, they would court face action and penalties.ADVERTISEMENT "Sembulan will serve as an example as a no-rubbish zone. DBKK demolished 58 houses, with the presence of the FRU riot squad and police personnel armed with machine guns," the Mayor said and urged respect for law and order among the migrant. "It's up to the court. Occupants will have to do community service in cleaning up their living surroundings," he said also of the Fu Yen Apartments littering on the balcony case next to the former Natikar Building which is now a hotel. "DBKK will provide the ladders for them."The occupants, every one, estimated at 20 and their households will be involved vicariously, as will all future offenders elsewhere whose living environment is found to be dirty.ADVERTISEMENT The Judiciary Department recently orgainsed a gotong-royong to clean up Kampung Sembulan recently with the participation of DBKK and lawyers besides others.Yeo said that DBKK will continue to organised gotong-royong, adding that it was not true that the cleanliness campaign did not start from the school level as some have continues to call for the cleanliness awareness to be taught from the schools as the root source to be effective.
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"We have been to the source. During British times, I remember in school we have to study a subject called 'Hygiene'," he said, recalling that the Federal Government in 1974 came up with the Environmental Quality Act.This led to the Berjaya Government at state level to form the Ministry of Manpower and Environmental Development in 1976.