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The La Dade-Kotopon Municipal Assembly (LaDMA), in partnership with the Regional Coordinating Council (RCC), has carried out a two-day clean-up exercise in the municipality in preparation for the Homowo festival slated for August 5, this year.
The exercise, which started on Monday and ended Tuesday, was also targeted at complementing government’s efforts in making Accra the cleanest city in Africa.
In a short address, the Greater Accra Regional Minister, Nii Kwartei Titus Glover, said the exercise was the second phase of the campaign which started few weeks ago from Ga Mashie areas, and reiterated the need for everyone to keep a clean surrounding.
Mr Glover urged the assembly to enforce bye-laws on cleanliness if the need be so as to maintain the successive outcome to be recorded after the exercise.
“If there is the need to enforce the bye-laws on cleanliness, please do so to ensure that the efforts put in these two-day exercise would not go to waste,” he advised.
He tasked everyone in La to keep their surroundings clean at all times so as to prevent breeding of insects and also prevent illness.
The Municipal Chief Executive for LaDMA, Solomon Kotey Nikoi, said the occasion presented the assembly the opportunity to improve their general sanitation.
Mr Nikoi pleaded with residents, traditional authorities, shop owners, traders, transport unions, garages and land lords associations, institutions, corporate bodies to participate fully to keep the municipality clean.
Nii Adjei Koofeh IV, La Shikiteli (Kingmaker), commended the assembly for making effective the exercise, and entreated them to extend the activities to reckless drivers who park their vehicles on the streets and also noise makers in the community to bring sanity into the municipality.
BY VICTOR A. BUXTON
