{"id":3648,"date":"2016-08-31T12:19:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T12:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=3648"},"modified":"2016-08-31T12:19:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T12:19:32","slug":"bujumbura-city-800-restaurants-and-bars-to-be-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/bujumbura-city-800-restaurants-and-bars-to-be-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"Bujumbura City: 800 Restaurants and Bars to Be Closed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dirty restaurants near Sion Market<\/p><\/div>\n

Unclean water used to wash utensils; buzzing flies, a low standard of cleanliness\u2026 these are some conditions in which restaurants near Sion market are operating. All along the alleyway leading to Sion market passing through the Agriculture Avenue in Ngagara neighborhood of Bujumbura City, the owners of these small restaurants are busy cooking and serving their customers. M.N, one of the restaurateurs operating in that locality indicated that she used water fetched in the parcel of the owner of her small house. \u201cWe do not have any problem with water and toilets; we just use those of the owners of these houses\u201d, she says.<\/p>\n

In her 50\u2019s, this widow with nine children, says that if these restaurants are destroyed, they will die of starvation. \u201cI do not have anyone to assist my kids with school equipment and fees; how on earth will I manage to take care of my family while I haven\u2019t any field to cultivate. I can\u2019t steal, I am too old to do that\u201d, she complains.<\/p>\n

This measure also concerns peddlers as well as porters. \u201cThe food sold in these restaurants is not expensive. If the latter are either destroyed or closed, we will become thieves given that we don\u2019t want to return to our native villages\u201d, underlines a vendor of peanuts, met in that locality. His colleagues swear that they will never go back home. \u201cWe will die in the city,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

According to Freddy Mbonimpa, the Bujumbura mayor, restaurants and bars which do not fulfill the hygienic conditions such as drinking water, latrines as well as clean and well-ventilated places, will be immediately shut down. \u201cWe have started this operation and about 800 houses including restaurants and bars will be closed while others will be destroyed in different areas and near the markets of the capital.<\/p>\n

We noticed that there is a sporadic planning\u201d. He goes on to say that this operation also aims at containing cholera epidemic which is currently observed in Bujumbura the capital. \u201cOther capital cities in the world are classified according to cleanliness standards, why don\u2019t we participate in that competition by keeping our capital clean?\u201d wondered Freddy Mbonimpa.<\/p>\n

For him, every citizen must contribute to the cleaning of the town given that the security situation keeps improving day after day. \u201cCleanliness is not a government issue, it is rather a personal affair\u201d, he says. The mayor also puts it that the Bujumbura City will proceed to the \u201cpolluter pays\u201d principle. Citizens will be responsible for insalubrity and dirtiness in their localities. \u201cThe Bujumbura mayor will only help them to organize themselves but the follow-up and the payment of fees will be their responsibility\u201d, he concluded.<\/p>\n

It is important to note that Bujumbura City has these last days operated a hunt for offenders in Bujumbura city center. \u201cAll these persons must return to their native villages. They have nothing to do in the capital\u201d, said Mbonimpa, the Bujumbura Mayor. On 30 August, several offenders and peddlers were arrested by the police at Sion market. \u201cWe want a clean, vibrant and prosperous town\u201d, he insisted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unclean water used to wash utensils; buzzing flies, a low standard of cleanliness\u2026 these are some conditions in which restaurants near Sion market are operating. All along the alleyway leading to Sion market passing through the Agriculture Avenue in Ngagara neighborhood of Bujumbura City, the owners of these small restaurants are busy cooking and serving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,670],"tags":[749,750],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3648"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3653,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648\/revisions\/3653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}