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Quote "“Cutting down the trees is out of the question because it is (a) sensitive (issue). I cannot kill the birds, as it would be wrong (to do so)!” Mayor
City Hall in a fix over bird droppings
by Chok Sim Yee. Posted on October 11, 2013, Friday
KOTA KINABALU: City Hall is open to any constructive suggestions on how to reduce bird droppings in the city.Mayor Datuk Abidin Madingkir said City Hall had done its best to resolve the issue, such as cutting down branches of trees used as a resting place by the birds and putting up bright lights in an effort to prevent them from spending the nights there, but all these have been to no avail.
“Cutting down the trees is out of the question because it is (a) sensitive (issue). I cannot kill the birds, as it would be wrong (to do so)!”
Abidin was responding to Kapitan Lim Shim Min’s recent statement on the issue of bird droppings along Gaya Street, especially near Jesselton Hotel, after officiating at the installation ceremony of DBKK Toastmaster Club here yesterday.
He said the trees that were chopped down along Gaya Street recently were infested with termites.
Instead of replanting the trees, City Hall decided to provide more parking spaces for the people, he said.
“Some people are happy, but some people are upset (about cutting down the trees at Gaya Street),” he noted.
Abidin said installing roofs might not be a viable option as it might affect the trees and the people may complain that the roofs compromised the aesthetics of the city.
“If we were to use creative rooftops, people may say we are wasting money just for bird droppings,” he lamented.
Hence, Abidin said, the short-term solution was to clean the bird droppings as soon as they started to accumulate.
“I’ve instructed my men to monitor and clean (the bird droppings). I know the problem will never end. We clean today, by nighttime the birds will come and there will be bird droppings the next day,” he said.
Any constructive suggestions to resolve this issue would be most appreciated, he reiterated.
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