Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Abena Dapaah, has appealed to Ghanaians to take personal hygiene serious to fight the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
She made the call at a three-day clean-up exercise instituted by Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources, in conjunction with the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) supported by Zoomlion Ghana Limited.
The clean-up exercise, which is being carried out in the Accra and Kumasi metropolis, is aimed at ensuring that lorry stations, market centers, streets and other public places in the Central Business Districts of these two major cities are clean and hygienic.
Personnel from the Ghana Army, Prisons, Fire Service and Navy together with Zoomlion workers were deployed to help in the three-day exercise.
She urged the general public to also weed and clean their surroundings to ensure they stay healthy at all times.
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“Refrain from the practice of littering and dumping garbage into gutters. The full rigours of the law will be hard on offenders.”
The exercise, Hon. Abena Dapaah indicated, forms part of the central government’s plan to keep the two cities clean.
She thanked Zoomlion Ghana Limited, Uniliver Ghana Limited and Ghana Water Company Limited for donating to support the massive clean-up exercise.
The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, called on Ghanaians to be united to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, which has become an enemy to the whole world.
His outfit, he disclosed, would do everything possible to ensured that funds are available to fight the pandemic.
The Mayor of Accra, Mohammed Adjei Sowah, explained that the clean-up exercise involves desilting of gutters, collection of refuse and disposing them off, and emptying all litter bins on the streets.
He assured that the city authority will do everything possible to ensure its sanitation bye-laws are working in other to keep Accra clean always.
Zoomlion deployed logistics including mechanical street sweepers, excavators, and other heavy-duty waste management vehicles to support the exercise.
The company also gave out 115 of its staff, loads of wheel burrows, shovels and brooms to assist in the clean-up exercise.
Zoomlion also donated 10,000 pieces of hand sanitizers and 5,000 nose masks towards the exercise.
Uniliver and Ghana Water Company Limited also made donations.
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By William Sarpong/Frontpageghana.com/Ghana
