Kyofatogabye Warns Residents Against Shunning National Cleaning Day

What the report says

State Minister for Kampala Joseph Kabuye Kyofatogabye has warned residents who avoid National Cleaning Day activities that they could face arrest, and that businesses belonging to non-participants could be temporarily closed. According to Nile Post, he made the remarks while leading the second edition of the cleaning exercise in Kiwoko, Nakaseke District, where youth, children, women and men joined the campaign.

Kyofatogabye said some people had stayed inside their homes rather than take part, and he ordered them to come out and help clean. He also urged village chairpersons to keep records of who participates and who repeatedly stays away, saying authorities could use the lists to follow up on habitual absentees. His message was framed as a call for public responsibility rather than punishment, with the minister describing the exercise as a health measure meant to reduce disease.

The article says residents who joined the event supported the effort and criticized those who remained at home. Kyofatogabye also pressed government to speed up the ban on polythene bags, which he linked to littering and blocked drainage channels. Separately, the report notes that similar cleaning exercises were held in Luweero District, led by State Minister for the Luweero Triangle Alice Kaboyo, and in Nakasongola District, where Resident District Commissioner Festus Bandeeba mobilized residents in Nakasongola Town.