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Same DC wants public caning for people disrupting water facilities
2008-04-07 10:18:19
By Salome Kitomary, PST, Same
Saboteurs of public water infrastructure in Same District, Kilimanjaro Region will be subject to corporal punishment in a move to check a looming wave of crime which has been frustrating government efforts in serving the people.
This was declared by the District Commissioner, Ibrahim Marwa, when talking to Katamri and Kiwanjani villagers in Same ward recently during the launch of a deep well where he received complaints that there had been people who were deliberately sabotaging the water infrastructure in the area.
He heard how some people were removing water pipes and other equipment installed by the water authorities in the district, which they later sold as scrap, hence complicating the water problem in the district.
The DC said when such people were caught red-handed or with the said equipment, they had to be punished on the spot as they were a threat to public development.
``I think we have to revisit the colonial era system of corporal punishment as such people are an abominable nuisance in society. They are only interested in their evil interests while people go without water. I now direct that, once you apprehend them, you have to cane them first,`` he said.
Elaborating in disgust, he said the government used huge funds in launching and improving various water projects and those in society who chose to sabotage them for their own reasons would be dealt with harshly and accordingly.
Meanwhile, the Manager for Same Water and Sanitation Authorities (Sauwasa), Mwita Nyakaraita, said Same township had more than 18,000 residents who needed 3,500 cubic meters of water daily but due to the prevailing dry season they were getting only 1,150 cubic meters of the liquid.
However, he said, plans were in the offing towards reviving and improving the obtaining water sources hand in hand with removing all people who had invaded the areas and caused the current negative situation.
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