A homeowner on Lorong Kg Sembulan 14 risks becoming RM10,000 poorer, for inadvertently allowing mosquitoes to breed in the metal stand he fashioned for his rubbish bin.
A total of 90 rate-payers from neighbourhoods in Luyang and Telipok, as well as an Inanam village, have been officially instructed to tidy up their property as the items strewn about their yards, and in the common area nearby, could potentially become a habitat for Aedes mosquitoes.
CITY HALL has intensified efforts to maintain the drain reserves in neighbourhoods where dengue cases have been reported.
Rate-payers in these areas have also been warned that they could wind up losing any trees or vegetables planted outside their backyard fences, if they failed to tend to their property regularly and allowed this greenery to become overgrown
City Hall is going after those who pile up rubbish inside their yards, or outside their fences, as these discarded objects have the potential to become a breeding ground for Aedes mosquitoes
A RATE-PAYER in the Kepayan Low Cost Housing area has been chided for failing to adequately tidy up his yard where he has piled up various recyclable items.
A spokeswoman for City Hall’s Environmental Health Department said the homeowner was reminded to clean up his compound earlier this month and warned that he could be penalised if he continued to disregard this request