Massive Clean Up Exercise Hits Ga South -To Complement MCE Vision To Make Municipality Cleanest In Accra
The Ga South Municipal Assembly with the support of Beauticians Association, Ghana Private Road and Transport Union (GPRTU) and lottery club has embarked on a massive clean up exercise.
Freeman Koryekpor Awlesu Greater 
The Ga South Municipal Assembly with the support of Beauticians Association, Ghana Private Road and Transport Union (GPRTU) and lottery club has embarked on a massive clean up exercise.
The exercise was in connection of the Operation Clean Your Frontage Initiative directive from the Greater Accra Minister, Mr Henry Quartey.
The exercise also complement the aim of the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Joseph Nyarni Stephen to to make municipality cleanest in Accra.
Ngleshie Amanfrom, Bortianor, Old barrier, West Hills Mall mall, etc which fall within the Ga South municipal Assembly had their shares of the exercise.
Speaking in an interview with journalists, the Environmental Health officer for the Ga South Municipal Assembly, Mr Fred Blessed Dumasi indicated that letters were served to shop owners to partake and not to open their shop from 7 am to 12 pm when the exercise is over.
The exercise is to enable the citizenry to always clean their surroundings whether there is clean up exercise or not, stressing that cleaning ones surrounding should be part of ones life.
He stressed that the citizenry makes operation clean your frontage initiative thier own and make thier surroundings clean to prevent diseases which are mostly caused by germs.
The Assembly then took the challenge to close down a toilet facility which has it waste connected to road side gutters leading to the River Densu (weija River) after the assembly's several warning and caution.
Speaking on this matter, the Environmental Health officer, indicated that the owner of the commercial toilet facility for the first place failed to honour the Assembly's letter to partake in ongoing clean up exercise.
He noted that it is unlawful for him to channelll his toilet waste into the gutters after several cautions from the Assembly.
He says the Assembly will be left with no option than to arraign him for court if he fails to comply with the Assembly and further goes on to reopen the facility.
It would be recalled that that Ga-South has launched 'Operation one household one dustbin' in its bid to fight the indiscriminate dumping of refuse.
The policy was launched at the first ordinary meeting of the first session of the first Assembly of the Municipality.
The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Joseph Nyarni Stephen said, “I am determined under my administration to make Ga-South the cleanest municipality in Greater Accra.
“In view of this we would be providing each household with a dustbin in the new policy,” he said.
For some time now, waste management has become a key part of campaign promises of political parties, as the city authorities struggle to cope with the waste generated by residents daily.
In certain parts of Accra, for instance, a scene of littered refuse, raw sewage sipping through choked drains and open defecation are daily occurrences.
It is easy to see markets, major highways and several communities in the city engulfed in piles of refuse.
Even in so-called affluent and well-planned areas, the unsanitary conditions and heaps of garbage that one is confronted with is an eye-sore.
To solve this, Mr Nyarni Stephen said it is time to pay a lot more attention to making the environment clean.
He believes this will prevent diseases as well as to add to the beauty of the municipality and the capital in general.
The Operation one household one dustbin’ policy will only require residents to pay for the cost of collecting the refuse as the Assembly supplies them with dustbins.
The Ga-South Assembly will partner private waste management companies to implement this initiative.
