Businesses operating in the Adentan Municipality have been urged to take the cleanliness of their frontages as a prime responsibility in order to maintain a clean environment.
The Municipal Environmental Officer, Andrew Nii Apai Aborhey, made the call after last Friday’s clean-up exercise to clear the area of filth.
According to him cleanliness is a shared responsibility as such it behooves the citizenry especially businesses to regularly complement the assembly’s efforts by regularly keeping their areas of operations clean.
The exercise which started at 7 am and ended at 12 noon saw several teams of the assembly staff weeding bushy surroundings and also dredging choked drains in the municipality.
Some businesses and shop owners who claimed not to have heard of the exercise were issued with notices to refrain from such acts or face the law.
Mr Aborhey indicated that the national sanitation day slated for the last Friday of every month had come to stay and called for massive cooperation from residents to help sustain it.
The environmental officer who described the turn out as encouraging stated that the assembly would not entertain any excuses in subsequent exercises.
He said the unit had issued 38 notices to businesses who failed to partake in the exercise.
The Municipal Environmental Officer urged residents especially businesses to register with accredited waste collectors and stop burning the waste.
He also advised against open defecation and those discharging fecal matter into drains warning that anyone caught would not be spared.
Mr Aborhey charged the residents to be law abiding and not dump at undesignated places in order to channel resources that could have been used in recollection to other profitable ventures.
“The assembly he indicated was ready to cooperate and work with the citizenry in order to maintain a clean environment,” he added.
BY LAWRENCE VOMAFA-
AKPALU