Accra, – The Ga East Municipal Assembly will from Tuesday, February 1, 2022, start the “Operation Clean Your Frontage” initiative to ensure a clean municipality.
Ahead of the operation, 17 residents and business operators have been summoned for breaking sanitation by-laws in the Municipality.
Mr. Charles Ampomah Asabre, the Environmental Health Officer, speaking at the launch of the Campaign, said the lawbreakers had up to 24 hours to report at the Assembly.
He said the campaign, which aimed at addressing poor sanitation in the Municipality, would augment the awareness creation campaign spearheaded by Mr. Henry Quartey, the Greater Accra Regional Minister.
“We are advocating for the citizens to know the laid down laws to guide their activities sanitation wise.
“Inappropriate waste disposal is also going to be abolished and failure to do so, one will be fined,” he said.
“Operation Clean Your Frontage” was launched by the Government in October last year.
It expects to deploy over 3,500 members of a taskforce to enforce sanitation by-laws.
It is to make it obligatory for all individuals and corporates to be responsible for the cleaning and greening of their immediate surroundings.
The necessary by-laws have been passed and gazetted by the 29 Assemblies in the Greater Accra Region to enable the lawful implementation of the initiative.
Madam Elizabeth Kaakie Mann, the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), in her address, said sanitation was a critical challenge to the Municipality, especially the lack of a dumping site and that the drive was timely.
She said the Assembly had for the past two months embarked on a sensitisation programme to educate the citizenry on good sanitation.
“We are going to start another sensitisation from today through community engagement with information vans, printing and hanging of large-size banners and the distribution of 5000 flyers on sanitation,” she said.
Madam Kaakie Mann said the Assembly had received a new compactor from the Regional Coordinating Council through zoomlion Ghana for the campaign.
“A special task force comprising environmental health officers, sanitation guards, NABCO and NSS has been formed and divided into three groups to monitor and ensure the discharge of duties effectively,” she said.
The MCE called for support from the residents, saying:
“Let us rekindle the communal spirit and be responsible to our environment, premises, homes, businesses, churches and markets.
“The Police have been duly notified and are ready to support us to ensure a smooth and successful implementation of the initiative,” she said.
Madam Kaakie Mann cautioned that “there will be no political party affiliation consideration for offenders.
“All offenders will be dealt with according to the laws of Ghana in the Assemblies by-laws and as your chief servant I will not tolerate the habit of some people who resort to political powers and influences when they offend the law,” she said.
Mr. Douglas Tagoe, Regional Environmental Health Officer, urged the citizens to see the initiative as their “baby to ensure lifetime neatness.”
“When you get sick you die early, operation clean your frontage is a long term initiative, embrace it and hold it as a baby,” he said.
Source: Ghana News Agency
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