Zoomlion, a leading waste management company in the country, has organised a special three day clean-up campaign dubbed; “Christmas Gift to Accra” with a call on Ghanaians to observe cleanliness during the Christmas season.
The campaign which saw the cleaning of all district assemblies and capitals in the Greater Accra Region, was also extended to all major markets.
At the Tema Station, tonnes of rubbish were cleared and choked gutters cleaned.
In an interview with the Daily Graphic, the acting Supervisor for the Accra Zone of the company, Mr Gofred Teye, said as part of the company’s social responsibility, close to six hundred workers were deployed to clean the major district capitals where greater volumes of waste are generated to help keep these places clean during the Christmas season.
He added that members of the National Malaria and Pest Control units were also there to fumigate the gutters to ensure good health in the communities.
He lamented the bad sanitation habits of many Ghanaians, adding that even in some of the gutters, especially at the Tema Station, people had defecated into the gutters, thus making their work quite difficult.
To this end, Mr Teye called on the Accra Metropolitan Authority (AMA) to assist by placing some mobile sanitary structures at the various markets to curb this unfortunate phenomenon.
In a related interview, Mr Robert Coleman, the Zoomlion Supervisor for the capital, on behalf of the company wished all Ghanaians a merry Christmas and a prosperous new year.
“I pray that Ghanaians would have a clean environment so that people will not fall sick, since as the saying goes, a ‘healthy nation is a wealthy nation’ ”, he added.
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