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Madam Cecilia Abena Dapaah, Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, on Friday commended Zoomlion for a good work at the Kpone Landfill site, as the place used to be filled with flies, scavengers and a mountain-like refuse dump before the commencement of the project.
Madam Dapaah said government through the Sanitation Ministry was committed in handling the sanitation issues in the country, noting that because of their initiatives, since 2017 cholera and dysentery outbreaks in the country had been eliminated as over 103,000 household toilets had so far been validated. She added that the Sanitation Ministry would continue to collaborate with the Greater Accra Regional Minister to ensure that the vision of making Accra the cleanest city was realized.
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Mr Henry Quartey (arrowed), the Greater Accra Regional Minister, supervising the clearing of concrete platforms in the median on the Kwame Nkrumah Avenue leading to the Kantamanto Market. Picture: DOUGLAS ANANE-FRIMPONG
The Greater Accra Regional Minister, Mr Henry Quartey, yesterday set his ‘Make Accra Work’ plan into action by storming the central business district (CBD) to clear off traders who had illegally occupied the pavements.
The exercise, undertaken by the Regional Coordinating Council (RCC), with support from the security agencies, was to get rid of structures on the shoulders of roads, clear traders who obstruct pedestrian movement off the pavements and allow for the free flow of vehicular traffic.
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The Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Ms Cecilia Abena Dapaah, has paid a visit to the Kpone Landfill site which is being decommissioned and is undergoing reengineering for its conversion into a recreational facility.
On her visit to the 48-acre site yesterday, she inspected work being done by the contractor and was briefed on the remaining works to be undertaken at the site.
The minister was assured that the project, which began in June last year, would be completed in December this year.
Ms Dapaah was accompanied on the tour by the Greater Accra Regional Minister, Mr Henry Quartey; the Kpone Katamanso Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Mr Solomon Tetteh Appiah, and some members of staff of the ministry.
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The Greater Accra Regional Minister, Mr Henry Quartey, yesterday set his ‘Make Accra Work’ plan into action by storming the central business district (CBD) to clear off traders who had illegally occupied the pavements.
The exercise, undertaken by the Regional Coordinating Council (RCC), with support from the security agencies, was to get rid of structures on the shoulders of roads, clear traders who obstruct pedestrian movement off the pavements and allow for the free flow of vehicular traffic.
Traders in various items, from food to jewellery, had occupied the pavements.
Mr Quartey, accompanied by some military men and policemen, stormed the CBD with a bulldozer for the exercise.