The Metropolitan Chief Executive of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), Mrs Elizabeth Sackey, has said beginning February 1 this year, the Assembly would organize a cleanup exercise in all three Sub Metros.
The Mayor said this in an interview with the media on the sidelines of a meeting held between the Greater Accra Regional Minister and all Municipal Chief Executives (MCEs) and their technical teams in the region.
The meeting was to review the various Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies (MMDAs) action plans on how best they could implement the campaign in their respective jurisdictions.
The campaign, a subset of the “Let’s Make Accra Work” plan, is spearheaded by Mr Henry Quartey, the Regional Minister. The campaign mandates landlords, business owners, property managers, among others, to take responsibility for the frontages of their properties and ensure a clean city.
Mrs Sackey said the Assembly was currently sensitizing stakeholders, including the public and corporate institutions, on the modalities before implementing the “operation clean your frontage” initiative. The Mayor further urged traders to organize refuse in waste bins to ensure efficient market collection. The Assembly would not hesitate to punish people who defied the Assembly’s by-laws on sanitation.
Mr Quartey commended the Assemblies for an impressive campaign pilot. He emphasized that the operation was not to jail citizens but to improve sanitation. “We are doing this together with the citizens. We will continue to engage the citizens for them to understand that the task is for the betterment of the city and the country at large,” he said. He also admonished residents and all stakeholders to come on board to help make the initiative a success in the quest of making Accra the cleanest city in Africa.
