As a part of the Operation Clean Your Frontage marketing campaign, the Greater Accra Regional Ministry, in collaboration with the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) and Zoomlion Ghana Limited, has begun a 3-month clear-up operation to sanitise and preserve the streets of Accra metropolis clear.
The train, which will probably be finished every day all through the three-month interval, can also be focused at desilting choked drains and gutters to permit free circulate of water, significantly when the rains have began falling.
Additionally, the operation’s activity power who includes personnel from the safety companies are anticipated to make sure the streets of Accra are rid of all obstructions.
The train, which started Monday (October 3, 2022) from the Laspamas Food Joint at Circle, is anticipated to final for 3 months from October to December, 31 2022.
Monday’s operation which ended at Melcom Plus at Avenor, Circle ensured that environment alongside the highway on this space have been saved clear
Personnel from the Ghana Army and the police supplied safety and area for the duty power to go about their work.
However, some unscrupulous people who did not adjust to the AMA’s have been summoned to seem earlier than a Magistrate Court at La throughout the Greater Accra Region.
Some accountable residents expressed utmost satisfaction in regards to the train. They, subsequently, referred to as for a steady embarking on such workouts to take away, particularly squatters from authorised areas.
Speaking to the media on the sidelines of the operation, an Environmental Analyst with the AMA, Mr. Joseph A. Asitanga, expressed his pleasure on the train and was upbeat that it’s going to yield the supposed outcomes.
He, nonetheless, added that efforts should be made to make sure that the particles gathered alongside the gutters don’t discover their approach again into the drains and gutters.
“We are going to ensure that every obstruction in and around driveways, walkways, unauthorised public spaces, buffer zones and all government lands within the Greater Accra Region ware cleared,” he said.
He went on reveal that a lot of the unlawful dwellers have been squatters who have been terrorising harmless folks alongside the streets.
To guarantee compliance with the order, Mr. Asitanga gave a agency assurance that the AMA will man each spot that its activity power will sanitise.
“Wherever, the team gets to and identifies a nuisance, the residents or workers are detailed to clean and desilt the gutters and drains,” he famous.
According to him, the train had no exceptions to enterprise buildings that had been erected illegally at unauthorised factors.
He indicated that whether or not or not a nuisance recognized at a location is created by the one noticed, the staff will impress upon the one to abate similar.
Vehicles parked at unauthorised locations such because the pavement or on roads have been clamped down with particular clamps.
“In fact, the operation is simply absolute no abstractions on the walkways, no
refuse in drains and gutters,” Mr. Asitanga warned.
Also, unauthorised homeowners of cattle ranches and sheep holdings on the railway traces at Avenor close to Circle throughout the Okaikoi South Municipality have been charged to instantly take away them.
An Environmental Health Officer, AMA, Ishmael Togoe, issued summons to individuals who have been inflicting nuisance at unauthorised areas and requested to seem earlier than the Motor and Traffic Magistrate Court.
A cattle rancher, Seidu Issahaku, was among the many perpetrators was summoned by the environmental well being officer.
Earlier, addressing the parade of activity power, the Project Coordinator of the Operation Clean Your Frontage, Colonel Kofi Amissah-Mensah (Rtd) expressed satisfaction on the swift response of the staff to the train.
According to him, although the train was supposed to start out at 8:00 a.m., he attributed the late begin of the programme to a call by them to permit homeowners of outlets inside to scrub their frontages.
He tasked the media to seize homes that will probably be surcharged to function a deterrent to others.
He disclosed {that a} particular sticker will probably be printed to tag varied homes that may default.
