Homowo clean-up exercise: All shops in Accra to close on Saturday

All shops and markets in the Central Business District (CBD) within the Ga Traditional Area are expected to close from 6am to 12pm on Saturday, July 13, 2024.

The exercise is in preparation for this year's Homowo celebration, celebrated by the Ga people. The clean-up exercise was initiated by the Ga Traditional Council (GTC), led by the Ga Mantse, King Tackie Teiko Tsuru II.

The clean-up campaign will be supported by the Greater Accra Regional Coordinating Council (GARCC), the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources, the Ministry of Local Government, Decentralisation, and Rural Development, the Ministry of Interior, Local Government Authorities, and Zoomlion Ghana Limited.

The Head of Public Affairs at the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), Gilbert Nii Ankrah said clean-up exercise is aimed at improving environmental cleanliness across the Ga Traditional Area.

"Within the AMA, all shops and businesses in and around Makola, Okaishie, Kantamanto, Rawlings Park, CMB, as well as Korle Gonno and Korle Bu are required to remain closed on Saturday for the exercise," he said. 

He encouraged all residents within Accra to join the exercise, pointing out that so far Sempe, Gbese, Abola, Asere, Dogo Beach, Otublohum, Akumanjen, Ngleshie, and June 4th Market, had been cleaned.

He called on residents, departments, agencies, corporate organisations, businesses, market leaders, transport unions, opinion leaders, teachers, and students within the jurisdiction to come out in their numbers with their tools to help clean the area in compliance with the AMA Sanitation, Cleaning, and Communal Labour Bye-laws 2017.