Before the public opinion court, Kigali City Authority has failed in its duties; therefore guilty.

One of your duties is to enforce health standards, but the enforcers of the law seem to be using different laws on different people and institutions to manage Kigali on behalf of Rwandans.

They have chosen to handle Rwanda Prisons Authority with kids’ gloves, whereas the same enforcers are harsh on city residents who do not measure-up.

The prison and its intuitions have refused to meet the minimal standards yet city authorities have not prosecuted neither warned them for being a public nuisance. Prisons have failed to manage their waste.

Every day, gallons and gallons of raw sewage is discharge from Kimirinko Central Prison and left to flow freely.

The permanent discharge of the faeces into a public trench that snakes through tens of houses in Kimironko 2 for over three kilometres is making the public suffer.

You approved plans for developers to build residential houses in an area you had ‘reserved for discharging sewage.’

Their right to live in a clean and healthy environment is being abused by a government institution—prison, built on public land.

And this prison with all the land has failed to dig a soak pit to dispose of their waste.

As a result development near the area is slow. But the greatest worry is with the rainy season, there is bound to be an outbreak of disease.

Reading a Public Health Act from a neighbouring country: "A person is guilty of a public nuisance (also known as common nuisance), who (a) does an act not warranted by law, or (b) omits to discharge a legal duty, if the effect of the act or omission is to endanger the life, health, property, morals, or comfort of the public…”

The residents have a strong case but it seems they are ignorant about the law and their rights.

They have suffered long enough, tried to petition several offices but their pleas seem to fall on deaf ears.

Kimironko