Operation Clean Your Frontage set to be launched today
As part of efforts to make the capital city one of the cleanest in Africa, President Akufo-Addo is set to bring into fruition the “Operation Clean Your Frontage” today October 22, 2021.
An initiative of the Greater Accra Regional Minister, Henry Quartey it is under the auspices of the Greater Accra Regional Coordinating Council and the ‘Let’s make Accra work’ agenda.
The program is set to be launched at Independence Square on Friday afternoon.
Henry Quartey revealed to the media earlier this week that, “As part of the ‘Operation Clean Your Frontage’ Campaign, we expect businesses, households, landlords, and all others to be responsible for the cleanliness of their frontage and their immediate surroundings.”
The campaign target is to encourage the greening of the city. The necessary by-laws have been passed and gazetted by the 29 Assemblies in the Greater Accra Region to enable the lawful implementation of the initiative.
Speaking at an Editor’s forum, the Regional Minister said there will be a grace period of three months for the ‘Operation Clean Your Frontage’ to be fully implemented after Friday’s launch to allow for all the necessary steps that ought to be taken to go through.
Under the campaign, Environmental Health Officers are expected to regularly inspect the frontage of premises to enforce sanitation regulations.
A new task force in Accra has however been put in place to enforce compliance.
The minister reiterated his interest to push for the ban on the use of tricycles, popularly known as ‘aboboyaa’ on the motorway.
He said the announcement would be made next week Tuesday, and that it will take immediate effect.
In the long term, however, the plan is also to ban the use of tricycles on other major roads in the region, but he said that would require putting some measures in place to regulate their operations in order not to put people out of jobs.
By: Stella Annan | myactiveonline.com Twitter @activetvgh
