Bolgatanga, Jan 20, GNA – The Municipal Environment and Sanitation Office in collaboration with Zoomlion Ghana Limited in the Bolgatanga Municipality has started a three-day cleaning exercise in the township to empty choked gutters and drains in the municipality.
The exercise, which started yesterday and supervised by the Municipal environment and Sanitation Office as part of the routine work was to ensure the environment was clean and debris collected into a Zoomlion communal container to be sent to damping site in Sirigu.
Mr. Evans Bornaa, Municipal Environmental Health Officer (MEHO), who spoke to this reporter in an interview said this was not a nine-day wonder activity and added that the exercise was expected to be continued in communities and houses especially along major roads in the township.
The exercise which enters its second day took the sanitation workers of Zoomlion and that of the Municipal Assembly along the Police Headquarters towards total No. 3 shell filling station, the drains opposite the MTN Regional Office and to the Nasona filling station along the District Police station.
The Municipal Environmental Health and Sanitation Officer said, soon his outfit would implement Operation Clean Frontage in the Municipality to involve all, however, he said the three-day exercise is to serve as a kick start to remove the choked drains before households begin the innovative exercise to clean their frontage.
Mr Bornaa who also advised the public on cleanliness reiterated that “it was everybody’s responsibility in the township to keep their surroundings close to them very clean”.
According to him checks on household toilets would soon bounce back in the Municipality, an action that would send defaulting landlords to court.
He therefore urged the landlords to improve on sanitation issues in and around their homes and ensure they patronize dust bins for liter.
He noted that people some households use wheel barrows, plastics to collect their refuse and noted that these were dumped openly in drains which according to him is and the act that was against the sanitation byelaws.
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