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The
Director
of
Communications
and
Corporate
Affairs
of
Zoomlion,
Madam
Emma
Adwoa
Appiaa
Osei-
Duah,
has
encouraged
the
government
to
use
the
military
to
enforce
sanitation
by-laws.
She
wants
the
military
to
be
deployed
at
public
places
including
the
market
to
ensure
compliance
with
the
sanitation
by-laws
to
keep
Accra
clean.
Ga
Mantse,
Nii
Tackie
Teiko
Tsuru
II,
in
partnership
with
the
Greater
Accra
Regional
Coordinating
Council
(GARCC),
Accra
Metropolitan
Assembly
and
Zoomlion,
has
embarked
on
a
clean-up
initiative
in
Accra
and
the
Central
Business
District
(CBD).
This
forms
parts
of
activities
spearheaded
by
the
Ga
Traditional
Council
to
ensure
Accra
becomes
clean
ahead
of
the
Homowo
festival
in
August.
Nevertheless,
there
was
low
participation
in
the
second
week
of
the
Homowo
clean-up
exercise
at
Makola
market
enclave
as
traders,
hawkers
and
shop
owners
refused
to
partake
in
the
exercise.
Personnel
from
the
Ghana
Police
Service
and
Ghana
Armed
Forces
ensured
security
and
compliance,
yet
the
traders
were
seen
sitting
idle
whilst
others
were
loitering.
Madam
Emma
Adwoa
Appiaa,
reacting
to
the
laid-back
attitude
of
the
traders
prayed
government
would
henceforth
use
the
military
to
enforce
sanitation
by-laws
to
get
Accra
clean.
Emma
Adwoa
Appiaa
She
expressed
displeasure
at
seeing
the
traders
sauntering
whereas
environmental
sanitation
officers
from
A.M.A
and
Zoomlion
Ghana
Limited
were
actively
involved
in
the
exercise.
“We
as
a
people
should
desist
from
littering
ridiculously
whereas
the
government
continues
to
enforce
the
sanitation
by-laws”.
If
I
have
the
power,
I
will
ask
the
government
to
deploy
the
military
everywhere
so
that
they
could
stop
the
people
from
dumping
at
unauthorized
places,
she
opined.
Madam
Emma
Adwoa
Appiaa
indicated
that
unsanitary
conditions
bring
about
diseases
hence
the
need
for
marketplaces
to
be
kept
uncluttered.
Story
by
Maxwell
Otoo/
Onua
FM
/
3news.com.