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Bolgatanga: MCE urge traders to intensify and maintain cleanliness in market

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The Bolgatanga Municipal Chief Executive, Joseph Amiyure, has urged traders in the Bolgatanga market to intensify and maintain cleanliness in and around their places of business.

The MCE gave the words of admonishment after a market clean up exercise initiated by the assembly through the municipal environmental department on Friday.

Addressing the traders, he advised them to be vigilant of persons who litter the market with sachet water rubbers and get them to pick up any littering to avoid the assembly holding traders responsible.

He believes putting some of these measures in place, the market will no longer be choked with refuse and diseases such as cholera and malaria will be a thing of the past.

“The bolgatanga assembly has come of late to agree that, we are going to have a zero tolerance to the littering of water sachet containers, especially the rubbers. While we are working within your environment, I mean you the traders. If for any reason, someone is drinking water and he or she is passing by and drops any sachet water container, please insist that person picks it. If the fellow doesn’t pick and we are going round and we see it by your area, we will assume that you are the one who dropped it there and the law will catch up with you. Keep your environment clean, because when your environment is clean, sickness will run away from you”.

He further stated that the 13-member environmental taskforce initiated by the assembly is to enforce law and order. He urged traders to cooperate with the taskforce to avoid any prosecution.

“We are not going to take environmental cleanliness as a joke. It is a priority for the assembly and we will keep Bolga clean”.

The traders led by Linda Akuba expressed satisfaction with the level of cooperation shown by the assembly. She assured the MCE of the traders cooperation.

“We do sweep the market, but we are pleading with the MCE to get people who are willing to stay with us in the market and sale. Because most of the people who rent the shops do store their goods inside and come pick them to the new market and sale. We don’t want that, we wish to sit with people who are interested to trade with us in the market. More to that, most the youth now use the shops as their hotels. We want the assembly to help us”.

Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen|A1radioonline.com|Ghana

 

 

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