Registration of “Borla Taxis” in Accra begins July 4

By S.O.
Dodoo, GNA

Accra, June 27, GNA – The Accra Metropolitan
Assembly (AMA) has announced that it would begin registering all operators of
private tricycle waste collectors popularly called “Borla Taxis” or “Aboboyaa”
from Wednesday, July 4 to Tuesday, July 31, 2018.

The registration days, which exclude; Sundays
would be done at various dump sites, waste transfer stations, AMA Waste
Management Department at Kaneshie and other designated locations in the city.

This was announced in a statement signed by
Gilbert Nii Ankrah, the Head of the Public Affairs of the AMA and copied to the
Ghana News Agency on Wednesday.

The exercise forms part of efforts by the AMA
to bring sanity into the operations of the private tricycle waste collectors
and to also identify all the service providers in the waste management value
chain, coordinate, monitor and control their activities in pursuit of the
“Clean Accra Project.”

It said it was further to aid in engagement
with the operators to enhance their capacity in health and safety,
environmental management and business development.

The statement said the registration was “free
and mandatory” and any tricycle operating within the AMA’s jurisdiction from
August, 2018 without the AMA embossment would be arrested and prosecuted.

“We assure the general public that adequate
steps are being taken to achieve the clean Accra goal and that AMA will not
hesitate to prosecute people whose actions draw us back in accordance with the
law,” it said.

The statement called on all adjoining
municipalities and district assemblies to register “Borla Taxi” operators
within their areas to support the realisation of the project goals.

GNA