From Richard Attenkah
Several hundreds of residents across the length and breadth of the Tema Metropolis, last Saturday joined officials of the Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) and other stakeholders to embark on a clean-up exercise to rid the city of fifth.
The other stakeholders who participated in the exercise include personnel from the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), Ghana Police Service, Ghana Navy, Ghana Immigration Service and Zoomlion.
Other stakeholders who joined the exercise were market women from the Tema main Community One (1) market, Tema communities, Two (2), Eight (8), Nine (9) and Tema Manhean markets and other residents across the metropolis.
This is the first phase of the monthly clean up exercise dubbed “Stand for Clean Campaign”, which is the brain child of the new Metropolitan Chief Executive, Isaac Ashai Odamtten, who sees the exercise as one of the priorities of his administration.
According to the MCE, the exercise will be done on a monthly basis for the first six months, after which the frequency would be reduced to, perhaps, once every quarter to help improve upon the health situation in the Metropolis.
Ashai Odamtten himself led officials of the Assembly, including the Tema Metropolitan Urban Roads Engineer, Mr. Steve Attipoe, Tema Metropolitan National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) Coordinator, Hajia Zeinab Abdulai, among others to inspect progress of the work.
At each point where the TMA boss and his entourage reached and residents were busily working, he stopped over to congratulate and encourage them to give out their best, sometimes getting involved with the work, as and when necessary.
Launching the “Stand for Clean Campaign”, Ashai Odamtten hinted that one way people in the Metropolis would enjoy healthy living was for all to hop aboard the efforts of his administration to keep the city clean.
He observed that it was his wish that the exercise comes to stay, so that it becomes part and parcel of the lives of residents in the Metropolis, who would not wait for the Assembly to organise such an exercise before they partake.
He revealed that the Mahama-led administration was so keen on this exercise to the extent that a court had been established within the Metropolis to prosecute recalcitrant residents who would flout the laws of sanitation in the area.
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