A Presiding Member of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), Mr Alfred Asiedu Adjei has hinted that government is set to employ over 1200 persons to enforce the ‘Operation Clean Your Frontage’ initiative in order to make it sustainable.
According to him, the 1200 persons who will be employed as a City Response Team will work in collaboration with National Service Personnel to ensure that traders, households and others clean the frontage of their homes and as well their respective places of work, especially at the markets.
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Mr Alfred Asiedu gave the hint while speaking about the commencement of the operation clean your frontage on Atinka TV‘s morning show, Ghana Nie with Ekourba Gyasi Simpremu.
The Operation clean your frontage initiative is being organised by the Greater Accra Regional Coordinating Council and the National Service Scheme in fulfillment of the President’s Vision of making Accra the cleanest city in Africa.
The exercise, which is under the auspices of the Greater Accra Regional Minister, Mr Henry Quartey started early Tuesday morning, February 1st 2022.
It brought together all Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in Accra, with supervision of the Chief Executive Officer of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly,
Mrs Elizabeth Sackey to move round the city and ensure people were cleaning their frontages.
Speaking on the matter, Mr Alfred Asiedu Adjei said although sanitation laws existed long ago, people always flout it hence the need to deploy personnel to ensure that after the exercise, people will continue to clean their environment.
He clarified that the City Response Team and the National Service persons will not be the ones to clean the frontage of people but will take videos and or pictorial evidences of persons who flout the sanitation rules and send it to their authorities so that the perpetrators will be sent to court.
For those who are sent to court, he said they will be fined in order to serve as a deterrent to others.
Mr Alfred Asiedu Adjei added that those who dump refuse and feaces in the storm drains will be held responsible.
Meanwhile, he said the responsible outfit will clean the storm drains as part of the exercise while individuals clean their frontage.
He urged those who wish to do cleanup exercises in their communities to contact their assembly members or the waste management department so that they can come around with logistics and pick the refuse from the roads.
Ghana | Atinkaonline.com| Porcia Oforiwaa Ofori
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