The Ministry of Agriculture and the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) have announced that persons seen dumping garbage in drains will face the full force of the law.
In a video posted to the Ministry’s Facebook page, the Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha, asked that residents stop dumping garbage in the trenches as it is hampering the drainage system. He noted that it is the rainy season and when the water cannot flow easily because of garbage blocking it, this causes flooding. Since the government began assessing the floods in certain areas that were affected by the rainfall, it was revealed that most of the flooding was cause by blockages and lack of free flow.
