‘Enforce bye-laws on sanitation’
The Senior Technical and Operations Manager of Zoom Alliance, Kenneth Asare, has reiterated the need for authorities to be proactive and enforce the bye-laws on sanitation in the country to ensure discipline.
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Mr Asare said if individuals found culpable of indiscriminate disposal of refuse were severely punished, it would serve as a deterrent to others.
He said that last Saturday, during a tour of the second phase of a sanitation campaign, dubbed; “Special Drain Distilling Exercise,” in some parts of Accra, including the London Market in James Town and the Mallam Market.
Zoom Alliance, in collaboration with the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, on September 7, 2013 launched the first phase of the campaign dubbed, “One Month Intensive Clean-up Exercise in Accra.”
The exercise is to help clear chocked drains and evacuate dumping sites and refill the lands with laterite for better use.
Mr Asare said the regional exercise, which covered Accra Metropolitan Assembly and some of the municipal and district assemblies, focused on selected market places used as refuse collection and communities with heaps of refuse.
He said the second phase, started last week, would last for three weeks and focused on identified drains in some parts of the city to be distillate.
The senior operations manager said the exercise would also reclaim the evacuated lands by filling them with laterite and maintaining security presence to deter people from indiscriminate dumping of refuse after the exercise.
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Elaborating on the work done so far, Mr Asare said his outfit had gotten rid of 70 per cent of the plastic waste in the drain at the London Market, and expressed the hope to finish it by the close of Monday, December 16.
Nene Azu, Chief of Mudor in Jamestown, commended Zoom Alliance, and said their involvement had changed the environment in the area.
Nene Azu also blamed the poor sanitation within his locality on his neighbours, including Bukom and Akoto Lantey, both in Accra.