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Nungua residents turn up for ‘Operation Clean Your Frontage’
Mr. Abdul-Wahab Abukari, Municipal Environmental Health Officer of the Krowor Municipal Assembly (KROMA) has appealed to people in the area to adopt sanitation in their offices, homes and surroundings to achieve Sustainable Development Goal Six (SGD-6) which talks of access to sanitation and safe water.
According to him, a clean environment led to good health and well-being of the individual.
Mr. Abukari made the appeal when he addressed the media at Nungua after a clean-up in the on-going “Opearation Clean Your Frontage.”
Participants desilted chocked gutters, collected refuse and cleaned the Nungua market and other areas.
He said that so far about 20 people had been prosecuted and made to pay fines ranging from GH¢ 600.00 and above depending on the gravity of the offence committed.
The Environmental Health Officer mentioned indiscriminate dumping of waste water, dumping of waste among others as some of the offences that culminated in the prosecution of the said offenders.
By Castro Zangina-Tong