MWANZA Regional Commissioner (RC), Mr Magesa Mulongo, was on Monday given 48 hours to issue a clear cut explanation why most of the city’s streets were filthy.
The directive was issued here by the Deputy Minister in the Vice-President’s Office (Environment and Union), Mr Luhaga Mpina. The deputy minister was in the region for two-day official tour, among others to inspect hygiene and sanitation situation.

He pointed out that hygiene remains national agenda thus everyone in the country had to play part in ensuring that environmental cleanliness is highly observed.
Mr Mpina hinted that Mwanza Region was one of the dirtiest cities, adding that the government was not ready to see it remaining in such an encrusted situation.
“I have ordered the RC to give us answers as to why Mwanza City continues to be dirty.” He said on January 30, this year, he will return to Mwanza to participate in a clean-up exercise with city residents.
The government had already announced that every last Saturday of the month, the general public will take part in a cleanliness exercise.
He urged executives and city and town council directors in the country to recognise that hygiene was a matter of utmost national concern, warning that officials, who will ignore the directive in any way, face strict legal action, including termination of their employment.
“The issue of hygiene is a national agenda for now; so we are going to start by first sacking administrators, district and regional directors who will fail to address the issue of cleanliness”, he said.
In his two-day official tour, Mr Mpina visited various parts of the city where he found out that the general sanitary condition is not satisfactory. The deputy minister toured Nyakato, Igoma, Igogo, Kirumba, Mwaloni and Mlango Mmoja areas.