Government told to use the military to enforce sanitation by-laws

The Director of Communications and Corporate Affairs of Zoomlion, Madam Emma Adwoa Appiaa Osei- Duah, has encouraged the government to use the military to enforce sanitation by-laws.

She wants the military to be deployed at public places including the market to ensure compliance with the sanitation by-laws to keep Accra clean.

Ga Mantse, Nii Tackie Teiko Tsuru II, in partnership with the Greater Accra Regional Coordinating Council (GARCC), Accra Metropolitan Assembly and Zoomlion, has embarked on a clean-up initiative in Accra and the Central Business District (CBD).

This forms parts of activities spearheaded by the Ga Traditional Council to ensure Accra becomes clean ahead of the Homowo festival in August.

Nevertheless, there was low participation in the second week of the Homowo clean-up exercise at Makola market enclave as traders, hawkers and shop owners refused to partake in the exercise.

Personnel from the Ghana Police Service and Ghana Armed Forces ensured security and compliance, yet the traders were seen sitting idle whilst others were loitering.

Madam Emma Adwoa Appiaa, reacting to the laid-back attitude of the traders prayed government would henceforth use the military to enforce sanitation by-laws to get Accra clean.

She expressed displeasure at seeing the traders sauntering whereas environmental sanitation officers from A.M.A and Zoomlion Ghana Limited were actively involved in the exercise.

“We as a people should desist from littering ridiculously whereas the government continues to enforce the sanitation by-laws”.

If I have the power, I will ask the government to deploy the military everywhere so that they could stop the people from dumping at unauthorized places, she opined.

Madam Emma Adwoa Appiaa indicated that unsanitary conditions bring about diseases hence the need for marketplaces to be kept uncluttered.

Story by Maxwell Otoo/ Onua FM / 3news.com.

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