The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has deployed 200 personnel to sweep major streets in the Central Business District as part of a special street sanitation programme.
They will sweep four major ceremonial streets to keep them clean.
The streets are John Evans Atta Mills High Street, Asafoatse Nettey Road, Kinbu Gardens through Octagon to Kinbu Gardens and Circle to Kaneshie 1st Light.
A gaming company and the headline sponsor of the Ghana Premier League, BetPawa, is supporting the project.
They presented 200 coats (uniforms), 100 raincoats and 100 waste bins to support the initiative.
The sweepers will be working in two shifts of 12 hours, from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. each day and would be supported by officers of the Public Health Department of AMA to enforce the sanitation bye-laws.
The event was attended by representatives of religious bodies, the Ghana Tourism Authority, Ministry of Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development, security agencies , Heads of Department and Staff of AMA, Market queen mothers and a team from the South Korea Environment Ministry.
Speaking at an event to launch the street sweepers initiative in Accra today (Wednesday, December 14), the Chief Executive of AMA, Elizabeth Sackey, said a special allowance had been arranged to motivate the sweepers to do their work.
She indicated that the Initiative was not a duplication of “Operation Clean Your Frontage” but to complement it.
“The City of Accra alone generates waste of over 1,800 tons daily, the highest in the country so far. Unfortunately, most of these waste are not properly disposed of thereby creating serious health issues for the citizens,” she said.
To address the sanitation problems, she said over 300 sanitary offenders, from January to date, have been prosecuted and heavy fines placed on them to serve as a deterrent to others.
She said plans were far advanced in establishing its own sanitary courts to deal with issues of sanitation and related offences.
Source: myghanadaily
