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BY: Caroline Boateng
Category: General News
Mr Henry Quartey (hands stretched), Greater Accra Regional Minister, addressing the meeting. With him are some staff of the Greater Accra Regional Coordinating Council. Picture: ALBERTA MORTTY
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“I CAN only succeed in making Accra work again if we support and make the campaign a collective responsibility,” the Greater Accra Regional Minister, Mr Henry Quartey, has said.
“As the representative and servant of the President, I must work to ensure that things are done right. Those squatting and erecting unauthorised structures have been engaged many times and notices served them. The train has taken off and it will not stop now,” he added.
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BY: Justice Agbenorsi
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The ‘Lets Make Accra Work’ initiative by the Greater Accra Regional Minister, Mr Henry Quartey, moved into full gear on Tuesday in a massive decongestion exercise that saw hundreds of unauthorized structures being removed to help keep Accra clean.
Organised by the Greater Accra Regional Coordinating Council in collaboration with the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) and the Ablekuma Central and the Korle Klottey Municipal assemblies, the day-long operation involved a massive clean-up of drains, streets and other open places.
The exercise, which commenced from the UTC Market on the Kwame Nkrumah Avenue, through to the Farisco area, along the Graphic Road to the Obetsebi-Lamptey Interchange, was highly patronised.
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BY: Joshua Bediako Koomson
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The Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL), in partnership with Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZLG), last Saturday embarked on a clean up exercise in Gbese, a community in the Greater Accra Region, to rid the area of filth.
The exercise, also supported by the Gbese Traditional Council, the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) and the Environmental Service Providers Association (ESPA), is the first of such exercises lined up for Graphic’s national sanitation campaign.
The year-long campaign, which is in partnership with the ZGL and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is aimed at drawing attention to the worsening sanitation conditions in the country.
The Greater Accra Regional Coordinating Council and the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) will begin an exercise to rid the Graphic Road in Accra of illegal occupants and encroachers.
The Greater Accra Regional Minister, Mr Henry Quartey, has charged corporate institutions within the capital to bear some level of responsibility and support the sanitation campaign under the “Make Accra Work” project.
To this end, the Regional Coordinating Council (RCC) and the Accra Metropolitan Assembly will ensure that corporate bodies who leave their gutters choked and allow scrap dealers to operate on their frontages would be fined.
Mr Quartey made the call at a stakeholder meeting ahead of a decongestion exercise along the Accra-UTC road to the Obetsebi Lamptey Interchange which has been scheduled to take off on Tuesday, May 18.