“Stop dumping refuse in Brekese gutter”-Assemblyman

Accra, Feb. 26, GNA – The Assemblyman of Krowor Djor Municipality, Mr. Romeo Sarfo has cautioned residents of Nungua in the Greater Accra region to stop dumping refuse in the Brekese gutter.

According to Mr Sarfo, he had on a number of occasions organised some youths to clean the gutter but residents continue to dump refuse in it causing health hazards in the municipality.

Mr. Sarfo said the residents refusal to adhere to instructions was worsening the situation in the area, adding that, ”he has no other choice than to involve the police, to arrest any person or household found dumping refuse or attending to nature’s call around the Brekese gutter for the necessary action”. 

He said another challenge in the area was robbery, which he attributed to the lack of street lights on the bridge and expressed the hope that the authorities would provide lights to curb the robbery.

He urged the media and the Nungua Chiefs to join hands in the crusade to control the problems in the area.

Speaking to the Ghana News Agency, Mrs. Sarah Abbew-Mensah, a resident and a trader, who has lived in the vicinity for quite a long time, said the gutter was once a river known as Brekese River, which helped residents some years back.

She said the river, until a few decades ago, served as a source of water, food, and recreation for the local populace, but that was not the case now.

She said it was sad that the once beautiful and useful river has now turned into a refuse dump, polluting the area as well as breeding mosquitoes.

She explained that because the gutter was choked with plastic wastes it does not flow freely and breeds mosquitoes, accounting for the high cases of malaria in the area, and anytime it rained most houses get flooded.

Mr. Solomon Opoku an electrician and a resident also blamed the current situation on the local waste collectors and some residents, who he said, dumps refuse into the gutter while the residents also have directed their faecal wastes and other wastes into the gutter.

“Another concern of the Assembly was the high number of block manufacturing factories in the community, most of whom win sand from the gutter to produce the blocks, leading to major erosion at the banks of the gutter,” he said.

Mrs. Rita Neequaye, a teacher also told the Ghana News Agency that, the foot bridges constructed to ensure easy movement of people from one side of the river to the other, had become a hub for thieves, who continuously harass and rob people who use the facility at night, because of the absence of street lights.

She pleaded with the authorities to deal with the robbery issues because they were scared to walk in their vicinities in the night.

GNA

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