Ablekuma North Municipal Assembly seeks to ensure cleanliness

By
Hayford O-Akrofi, GNA

Accra, Sept. 23, GNA –
The Ablekuma North Municipal Assembly is embarking upon a weekly clean-up
exercise to get rid of filth in communities.

This is in line with
President Nana Akufo Addo’s vision of ensuring that Accra becomes the cleanest
city in Africa.

This was among a
number of consensus reached between the assembly and assembly members from the
seven electoral areas in the municipality and other stakeholders in the area.

Mr Kofi Ofori, the
Municipal Chief Executive, said since assuming office about two months ago, his
major pre-occupation had been the indiscriminate dumping of garbage on the
streets in the municipality.

He said the practice
was unacceptable and cautioned that, anyone caught dumping garbage at
unauthorized areas will be made to face the law.

Mr Ofori said very
soon the assembly will embark upon a house to house inspection of toilet
facilities and urged every house to own one.

He said the government
has a program to assist every house to get a toilet facility by paying 60 per
cent of the cost of construction, with landlords paying the remaining 40 per
cent and urged landlords to take up the offer.

Mr Ofori called for
the re-engineering of most of the drains in the municipality to forestall the
perennial flooding in the communities anytime there was a heavy downpour.

He appealed to
traditional rulers in the municipality to release land to the assembly to
provide lorry parks, markets, community libraries and fire service stations in
the various communities.

He cautioned gambling
outlets in the municipality not to allow school children below the age of 18
years into their centres and warned that any business centre which flouted the
directives would be sanctioned.

Alhaji Shehu Awudu
Kadiri, the Municipal Co-Ordinating Director, said the doors of the assembly
were open to all for assistance at all times.

He urged people who
had issues seeking for redress to approach him or any of the departmental heads
for help.

GNA

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