Join Us To Make Accra Cleanest City - Sempe Mantse urges Ghanaians

Divisional Chief of Sempe Stool in Ga Manshie of the Greater Accra Region has charged residents leaving in the various communities in the Ga State to keep their surroundings clean to supplement President Nana Addo Dankwa Addo-Addo vision to make Accra the cleanest city in Africa.

According to Nii Adote Otintor II, who doubles as the Acting President of the Ga Traditional Council (GTC), the chiefs and traditional office holders in the Ga State have taken management of environmental sanitation seriously by way of taking upon themselves to lead and support the effort to improve and expand sanitation mainly liquid waste management in the Greater Accra Region.

Nii Adote Otintor II made this call when he was speaking in an interview with Soireenews during a massive clean-up exercise in Accra being jointly organised by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly in collaboration with the Zoomlion Company, which provided logistics.on Saturday.

The exercise was supported by the Ga chiefs.
 
Nii Adote Otintor II who showed up in the exercise entreated the residents in Accra metropolis to get actively involved in clean-up exercises to prevent communicable diseases.

“We are about to celebrate the Homowo and we need to do so in a neat and hygienic environment so people would not have to isolate themselves from taking part in clean-up exercises in their areas," he noted.

Nii Otintor was thankful to the AMA Chief Executive, the Zoomlion Company and Nii Lamptey Bannerman and the assembly members who supported the clean-up exercise.

For his part, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for AMA, Mr Mohammed Adjei Sowah, commended the traditional officeholders in Accra for showing leadership by way of participating actively in a clean-up exercise in some part of the metropolis.

Freeman Koryekpor Awlesu Greater Accra Regional Correspondent