The Minister for Local Government, Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Ahmed Ibrahim, has charged Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) to enhance sanitation standards across all communities.
To ensure accountability, he announced plans for unannounced inspections to hold local leaders personally responsible for maintaining cleanliness.
Additionally, he declared a nationwide one-week clean-up exercise scheduled from Saturday, December 13, to December 20.
This initiative forms part of a broader national effort to present a clean and welcoming Ghana ahead of the Christmas and New Year festivities, which attract a large influx of diaspora visitors.
The minister made this known during an unannounced inspection tour of several Greater Accra municipalities, including Ayawaso West Wuogon, La Nkwatanang, Madina, and Adentan.
He added that sanitation workers, including ‘borla taxis’, sweepers, and waste trucks, will be fully deployed nationwide starting from Monday, signalling an all-out government assault on waste accumulation.
“So if you are an MDA or MMCE, President Mahama did not appoint you to come and sit there and disburse the common fund. He gave you a job. Leadership is about service. Let that service be performed. Our responsibility is supervision, and we are going to intensify it,” he declared.
“On Monday, ‘the borla taxis will be at work, and the sweepers, those that are functional, will be at work. The trucks will be at work.”
He said the ministry will collaborate with other ministries towards this agenda.
“We are all going to the drawing board, together with my colleagues. So we will bring in Transport, Health and Interior to be part of the ministry. These seven days, at least, we must make sure Ghana is clean for the festive season so that our brothers and sisters who will be coming from foreign countries will have a good impression of Ghana,” he revealed.
Source: BBC
