The Chief executive of La Nkwantanang Madina Municipal Assembly, Mrs Jennifer Dede Adjabeng has today led a Municipal wide clean up exercise as part of the operation clean your frontage campaign.
For the almost four-hour duration of the exercise, all shops and markets were closed to ensure a successful exercise.
Staff of the assembly, property owners, tenants and traders were among hundreds of residents who took part in the exercise that covered areas such as Madina Center Market, Zongo junction, Social Welfare, Oyarifa, West Adenta and Madina estate streets.
The participants desilted the choked gutters at the Baba Seidu road, Melcome road, Nkulenu road and the Madina market.
Objective
The MCE , Mrs Jennifer Dede Adjabeng, who led the exercise, said the assembly was determined to stop the untidy conditions on the streets and markets across the metropolis.
She said the Assembly would continue to work in accordance with the operation clean your frontage campaign introduced by the Greater Accra regional minister to help become reality the dream of making Accra the cleanest city in Africa.
“ The Greater Accra Regional Coordinating Council led by the Regional Minister, Hon. Henry Quartey came up with the directive for the whole of greater Accra to embark upon this clean up exercise. That is exactly what we at La Nkwantanang Madina are doing in line with the by-laws of the operation clean your frontage”. Dede Said.
Appeal
The MCE appealed to residents to show interest and take active part in such clean-up exercises as LaNMMA would subsequently be embarking on more of such exercises.
Even though the residents largely complied with the directive to close their shops, there some recalcitrant few who were idling around without participating in the clean-up.
During his supervision of the exercise, the Municipal Environment and Health Officer(MEHO), Joseph Quarcoe cautioned residents that the current sanitation by-laws under the operation clean your frontage requires residents to take full responsibility of cleaning and collecting of refuse gathered.
“ it is no longer the responsibility of the Assembly to collect the refuse. You have to clean and find a way to dispose the refuse yourself. That’s as per the current sanitation by-laws. It is no longer the responsibility of the Assembly” He said.
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