Abossey Okai Spare Parts Dealers Lead Massive Clean-Up, Gifty Fianu Champions Sanitation

As part of the effort to maintain environmental cleanliness in our various communities, the Abossey Okai Spare Parts Dealers Association, in partnership with the Ablekuma Central Municipal Assembly, has embarked on a massive clean-up exercise in Abossey Okai business hub and its immediate environs. 

The 8-hour clean up with all shops closed started in the morning and was supported by the Ghana Prisons Service, including other waste management companies supported to effectively facilitate the desilting of chocked gutters and the collection of refuse, among others.

Addressing the media shortly after the exercise, the General Secretary of the Abossey Okai Spare Parts Dealers Association, Mrs. Gifty Lovelock Fianu urged traders and residents to keep their surroundings clean through constant sweeping and the timely collection of refuse.

She however called on the citizens to stop littering and stop the habit of disposing refuse into gutters as well as on the streets and therefore urged the respective Municipal Assemblies to adequately resource their sanitation task force known in the local language as “Saman, Saman to impose spot fine on people who flout the sanitation bye laws.

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The Secretary General appealed to the Municipal Assemblies to place sanitation waste bins at voltage points in the business and trading communities to help reduce the generation of refuse “borla” and other unwanted materials in the bid to avoid health hazards, adding that the Association have also place dust bins across the spare parts business enclose.

For his part, Mr. Frank Nkansah, Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) Officer for Ablekuma commended the Association for the massive clean up exercise and urged others to emulate the shinning example of the Association and again called on all traders to daily sweep the frontage of the shops.

According to him, the exercise will be held quarterly as a measure to sustain the cleanliness of the communities as the Assembly will embark on periodic inspections and called on shop owners and the trading public to comply with the inspectors, adding that the tidy up is a shared responsibility.

“The Assembly will forge a stronger collaboration with the Association to ensure that logistics are supplied for clean exercise particularly sanitation waste bins to ensure environmental cleanliness,” he added.

Report by Ben LARYEA