La-Nkwantanang MCE warns residents over illegal refuse sites

The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of the La-Nkwantanang Madi­na Municipal Assembly, Mrs Jennifer Dede Adjabeng, has advised residents to refrain from indiscriminate dumping and littering in the area or have themselves to blame.

According to her, despite the arrest and prosecution of several offenders, the prac­tice still persists, especially at the Zongo Junction area, thus making it difficult for the sanitation companies to meet their targets.

The MCE made these re­marks after a clean-up exer­cise was conducted as part of the monthly campaign to get rid of filth in the area.

The five-hour exercise, which started at 5am and ended around 11am, had teams comprising the envi­ronmental staff of the as­sembly, Zoom Lion, traders, the security agencies and property owners who weeded the bushy surroundings and desilted chocked drains along the principal streets in the municipality.

She indicated that in order to achieve that noble objec­tive of maintaining a clean and healthy environment, it behoves the citizenry to abide by their social routines and responsibilities by ensuring that the waste they generate were properly disposed of in order to avoid conflict with the law.

Mrs Adjabeng warned that the assembly would not take kindly to anyone caught dumping refuse in any part of the municipal­ity, and urged the unit committees to increase their watchdog roles to prevent the high­way from becoming dumping sites.

She said the assembly was also carrying out the sweeping and collection of sand along the N4 to prevent the waste being washed back into the drains along the highway.

So far, the exercise has been carried out from Ayi-Mensah to UPSA junction of the N4 Highway and some streets in the Central Busi­ness District, especially Chief Babaa Seidu Street has been cleaned.

The MCE charged all resi­dents to be environmentally –conscious, particularly in this times of incoming rains in order not to create a fertile ground for any alarming inci­dents, adding that “there was the need to break any unhelp­ful cycle”.

By Lawrence Vomafa-Akpalu