Cleaning Accra
The Ga Traditional Council asked shops and all trading centres in the traditional area not to open till midday for Saturday’s clean-up exercise in Accra.
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The council further urged shop owners and the public to join in the exercise to clean the environment.
The traditional council is championing a clean-up campaign in Accra as part of activities leading up to the Homowo Festival of the chiefs and people of the Ga State.
The Asafoatse Nukpa of the Ga State, Captain Nii Kojo Nseni Mankattah IV, therefore urged the public to join the Homowo clean-up exercise, stressing that cleaning the surroundings is a collective responsibility to prevent the outbreak of diseases.
“With most people, when we go to their areas, they just sit down and look at us doing the job. But it's not about only us doing the job, it's about everybody getting involved in the exercise.
“When diseases come, they do not know Ga Mantse, they do not know Sempe Mantse, neither do they know any member of government or the traditional councils.
“When the diseases come, they will affect everybody,” he added.
Nii Mankattah was speaking to the Daily Graphic during the second Homowo Clean-up exercise, which aimed to enhance environmental cleanliness within the Ga Traditional Area.
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Last Wednesday’s exercise took place at the Ablekuma Central Municipal Assembly and its environs.
Collaboration
The exercise, which will end on August 20 this year, is a collaborative effort by the Ga Traditional Council, the Greater Accra Regional Coordinating Council (RCC), the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) and Zoomlion Ghana Limited.
Zoomlion is providing technical support by making available trucks to collect and dispose of the waste and the working tools required for the exercise.
The exercise, which will take place in all the 25 local government authorities within the Greater Accra Region, aims to enhance the cleanliness and the beautification of the environment while fostering unity and responsibility among residents and the communities.
Nii Mankattah further intimated that the Ga Traditional Council was putting in place measures to ensure that such communal clean-up activities were not a “one-day thing”.
He said the plan was to sustain the practice even after the Homowo Festival to instil the habit of cleanliness in the residents of Accra and beyond.
To achieve this, Nii Mankattah said, the traditional council would resort to the law courts to punish individuals who litter and create filth.
Donation
The Public Relations and Corporate Affairs Manager of Zoomlion, Ernest Morgan Acquah, disclosed that after the festival, his outfit would donate some logistics to the various traditional clans to enable them continue with such exercises.
He encouraged the public to clean their environment and neighbourhood, and not always wait on authorities to call on them to do so.