The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) will on Friday (28th April 2023) organise a clean-up exercise at the Agbogbloshie market.
The exercise which is under the auspices of the Greater Accra Regional Coordinating Council (GARCC) forms part of an agenda to decongest the area and ongoing efforts to keep the city clean.
The decision to embark on the clean-up exercise was firmed up at a stakeholder engagement held between the Greater Accra Regional Minister, Hon. Henry Quartey, the Mayor of Accra, Hon. Elizabeth K.T Sackey, representatives of the Ablekuma Central Municipal Assembly (ABcMA) as well as leadership of the markets to map out strategies to clean choked drains in the market to prevent flooding and improve sanitation.
The exercise which will be undertaken in collaboration with the Metropolitan and Municipal Security Councils of AMA and ABcMA after series of engagements with stakeholders in the Agbogbloshie enclave according to the Chief Executive of the AMA would among other things help create an enabling environment for trading activities in the market.
She disclosed that the Assembly would after the exercise mount No PARKING signage on sections of the road and intensify enforcement exercises including clamping and towing of vehicles, as well as increase police visibility points to ensure compliance.
She bemoaned the behaviours of traders who deliberately dump their food remains into the drains stressing that the habit choked the drains which cost the Assembly a lot to desilt adding that trading behind the dwarf wall constructed would not be tolerated.
Greater Accra Regional Minister, Hon. Henry Quartey in an address during the durbar reminded the representatives of the market of their core mandate to keep the market clean adding that the Operation Clean Your Frontage bye-law was promulgated to help rid the city of filth.
He assured the leadership of the market of his support towards the exercise and warned that traders who do not participate in the exercise would be dealt with in accordance with the law.
He also urged tricycle operators to stop operating and parking on the Agbogbloshie road adding that the situation creates congestion.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
