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espondent to discharge its function properly by establishingan appropriaterefuse dumping site and us it.Kunduchi Mtongani is within the area of jurisdiction of the City council, but it iszoned in the city’s Master plan as a residential area. The Council began to dumpwaste and refuse at this area effectively from September, 1991 after the HighCourt’s order in Joseph D. Kessy and Others v. the City council of Dar es Salaamnot to dump refuse at Tabata. The dumped refuse and waste were burningemitting much smoke covering wide area and offensive smell has attractedswarms of flies.For the applicant, it was argued that collection and disposal of refuse was one ofthe city council’s Mandatory duties, but the law required that statutory duties tobe performed lawfully and that by dumping refuse at Kudunchi-Mtongani therespondents were executing its duty unlawfully thus ultra vires. Therespondentsdid not consider the relevant factors in deciding to dump waste atMtongani the decision was also without plausible justification because thedump8ng activity was posing a health hazard and nuisance to the residents andthereby making life extremely unbearable and the decision was unreasonableInreply, for the respondents it was submitted that in depositing refuse atKunduchi Mtongani they were performing a statutory duty lawfully, and theactivity was not ultra vire the Empowering Act.441

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