“My friend died in a dump with a trash Kiteezi”

Lasting from tears, the 22-year-old garbage collector, Prince Okuk, reminds that a non-living friend was found in the Uganda capital, Camanda capital.

Last August, 30 people were killed in the dump of kites, including his girlfriend Sanya Kezia.

“I think some people are still under the garbage,” he says BBC.

Many of them earned a living by washing and selling any discarded items that they still had value – from fishing nets to plastic bottles, glass jars and components of old electronic devices.

After the deadly collapse, the game flared up when the City Council Class and the Central Government accused each other of negligence, while some dead still stretched under the dumps without dignity of the burial.

When government tractors eventually dug Kesia’s body, injuries of the age of 21 occurred.

It was awful to see his friend to see him shook with stinking, rotten waste.

“We are not safe here. If they are (do not repair), perhaps align it. Otherwise people are not safe,” says Mr. Prince, who, before becoming a heart, studied the law at the Uganda Islamic University.

It is impossible to afford tuition fees after his family became financially unstable, his daily disposal is now far from libraries and lectures.

Unemployment among young people is at the crisis level in Uganda, and there are many people like a prince who often risk their health and give up their dreams to earn a living.

“I come here to the landfill in the morning, collect polyethin bags, take them for washing and sell them,” says Mr. Prince. “I make 10,000 shillings (equivalent to $ 2.70 or £ 2.10) per day.”

The collapse left him in the future financial flour when he lived out of garbage – but he had to move out of safety problems.

Other people’s homes were also destroyed during rescue operations.

Compensation money was paid to the families of those who died but not about 200 people who lost their homes, local authorities confessed to the BBC.

Officials “are waiting for the budget assessment and distribution,” says D -R Sarah Karen Zalwang, the new head of public health and the environment in the city’s campaign (KCA).

Some claim that Keteza collapse was inevitable because the main common sense was ignored.

“You can’t take four million people, get all these waste, mixed and unreasonable – and take it to one dumping site. No, it’s not how we (should) do it. But we’ve been doing it for over 20 years,” Frank Muramuz, Urban planner based on BBC.

At the Kiteezi landfill, it was built in 1996 with the World Bank financing to provide a single, major storage for solid waste formed in Camol.

As Camol grew, there is also the biggest dump.

On the northern edge of the city, it covers 15 hectares (37 hectares) – the size of more than 22 football venues – with its stench is still spread.

Children’s birds are seen flying over their heads.

Residents and enterprises of the city daily create 2500 tons of waste, half of which fall into trash across the city – the largest is Kiteezi.

But the problem is that Kiteezi lacks recycling, sorting and burning, which should have landfills.

“With each layer of garbage consisting, the lower layers become weaker, especially since the decay and decomposition of organic waste raises the temperature,” Muramus explains.

“Without the ventilation holes, methane and other gases are trapped below, multiplying the fragility of the free structure.”

However, it can be easily fixed, it adds, as long as the government obliges periodically monitoring and audit, which factor in environmental, social and economic needs.

If it were already in place, “the chaos that happened in kites,” he says.

So, if the solution is simple, why is it not happening yet?

The answer seems to be a combination of power and financial mismanagement.

The final responsibility for the preservation of the CPU “pure, residential and sustainable environment” lies in the CCC, but the mayor of Eryas Luke from the opposition forum for the Democratic Change party says that he lacks the necessary power in his office.

KCCA states that he has repeatedly offered plans to export Kiteezi, but says the funds needed for this purpose – $ 9.7 million – exceed the city budget and were not available to the central government.

“All the support we receive is the politeness of the development partners and donors such as Bill and Melinda Gates, Gizz and Wateroid … But their ability is very limited,” said the Mayor of Cams.

“If we received proper funding from the Central Government, we would be very far away.”

There is no word from the government about whether it will allocate funds to the largest dump of the Cample.

He paid $ 1,350 to each of the dead families, saying that any extra money would only have if government agencies “will be recognized as responsible.”

A month later, the report submitted by the police and the investigation of the crimes led to President Job Museveni – a marked political opponent of the mayor of Campala – the firing of three high -ranking KCCA officials, including the head of the body and public health directors.

James Bond Cunabera, the Car Holly Waste Office, admits that the deadly collapse last year was a very necessary call for awakening.

Currently, the authorities in the Uganda capital make plans to turn organic waste into compost and reduce “unnecessary waste” that come to the city.

But they want the public to also take some responsibility. At the moment, people are paying one of the seven private waste who work in the carol to collect the garbage that all together with the little ones are specified.

“We have not changed the thinking of the residents to sort the waste,” says BBC G -nober.

“When you are sorting, the waste has different directions. When you mix, everything goes one – the landfill.”

Experts say that such initiatives are important, but do not resort to great structural shortcomings in Kiteezi.

And for the people whose lives were destroyed by the latest events, too little.

“They promised to compensate for the US, but I didn’t get anything – almost everyone complained,” Mr. BBC says.

“We lost our friend. Everything that happened in this process was sadness.”

Additional Natasha Booty report.