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Decongestion of Accra begins tomorrow
Audrey Micah, Ghanadot

Accra, June 1, Ghanadot - The much anticipated decongestion exercise in the capital promised by the Chief Executive of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly, Dr. Alfred Vanderpuije will take off tomorrow.

The exercise to decongest the city’s streets of unauthorised structures and hawkers.

A three-month action plan to guide the execution of the decongestion exercise has been approved by members of AMA. The AMA boss disclosed to Joy FM that the exercise will bring sanity to the capital and ensure free traffic flow.

Justifying the decision, Dr. Vanderpuije said no meaningful development can take place in the capital under the current mess. He said with the support of the security agencies, the notorious brothel at Kwame Nkrumah Circle, Soldier Bar, will be demolished.

Meanwhile, Mr. Daniel Okai, Chairman of Odododiodioo constituency has called on residents in Accra to support the AMA to keep the city clean.

He said Mr. Vanderpuije had already pledged to clean and decongest the city to befit its status as the nation’s capital.

According to him, the way the Mayor had “come out running” immediately after his endorsement by the Assembly, clearly “confirms what some of us saw in the man and supported his bid for the position”.

The chairman noted that filth in Accra was cleared through the mobilization of the people, supported by companies that released equipment and trucks to cart garbage under a special programme to maintain environmental sanitation.

He called on the AMA to initiate comprehensive programmes to sustain efforts to rid the metropolis of filth.

Mr. Okai, who is also a government appointee of the AMA, suggested that refuse disposal bins should be placed at strategic points in the metropolis with a systematic programme to empty them regularly.

He also urged environmental sanitation officers to arrest and prosecute people who dumped refuse arbitrarily to serve as a deterrent to others.

 

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