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Operation Clean Your Frontage to begin in Bolgatanga soon – MCE

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The Bolgatanga Municipal Assembly has given a strong indication that its fight to decongest unplanned and overcrowded areas and ensure proper sanitary practices in the Municipality would be intensified. Speaking on A1 Radio’s Day Break Upper East, the MCE for the area, Rex Asanga said the Municipality could not continue to wallow in filth. Also, Mr. Asanga was displeased about the haphazard nature with which some structures had taken up parts of the roads.

“You see what Accra is doing, we are going to do something similar. I do not see why you should put a container next to the street, right in front of a gutter and then you are waiting for Zoomlion or Assembly labourers to come and sweep. We will not tolerate that. Anyone who is unable to keep his or her frontage clean, we will shut him or her down. You won’t use the shop for about a week. When you are ready, you would come to the Assembly to sign a bond of good conduct,” he said.

Mr Asanga explained that the Assembly would also liaise with the Magistrate Court to fine recalcitrant traders who refuse to comply with the orders on sanitation.

“I will be very happy charging people ghc200, ghc300. These monies would come to the Assembly’s coffers and we would now use those to further development,” he added.

On the issues of toilets, the MCE acknowledge that the Assembly’s fight against Open Defecation lacked. He said strengthening the fight against open defecation would mean the Municipality would perform better in the fight against the menace.

He encouraged residents to take advantage of private investors who offer to build toilet facilities for households for subsidized and flexible payments.

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Meanwhile, Mr. Asanga also commended media practitioners and the various media outlets for their unflinching support in his attempts to relocate grain traders from the new market to the old market as well as the resituate the slaughtering of ruminants to the Yorogo facility.

“It is not every day you will get every media house or journalist to just be supporting a course taken by a politician. But in these two activities, I got the media completely in support of it. They really went out of the way to give us support and I think that is what kept us on. We were encouraged by the support. It appears that the population was also waiting for somebody to take those bold decisions,” he said.

A1radioonline.com|101.1 MHz|Mark Kwasi Ahumah Smith |Bolgatanga|Ghana

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