Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev proposed on Wednesday that people be arrested for leaving chewing gum on the streets, Tengrinews.kz said.
“People stick chewing gum on underpasses. We should apprehend them, take fingerprints and draw up arrest reports…with administrative punishment, fines and three-day custody,” Nazarbayev told a conference on modernization in the capital Astana.
He said these measures would prevent more serious crimes, adding that the crime rate in Astana was the highest in the country and the rate of solved crimes was the lowest.
In 1997, Kazakhstan moved its capital from Almaty to Astana, a city of over 700,000 people.
