Ayariga urges residents to keep surroundings clean as AMA deploys 20 tricycles
The Minister for Local Government, Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Mahama Ayariga, has urged residents to take greater responsibility for sanitation by ensuring waste is properly disposed of rather than leaving refuse outside their homes for government authorities to collect. He said keeping communities clean should go beyond maintaining individual homes to include the surrounding environment,…
Minister Mahama Ayariga has called on residents of Accra to take more responsibility for maintaining clean surroundings and proper waste disposal. He emphasized that keeping communities clean is a shared responsibility, urging people to dispose of their waste in a manner that allows for easy collection by authorities. Ayariga commended the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) for purchasing 20 tricycles to aid in waste collection and sanitation efforts across its 20 electoral areas.
He encouraged other assemblies to adopt a similar approach by investing their Internally Generated Funds (IGF) in projects aimed at tackling sanitation issues. The Minister also revealed that the government is collaborating with development partners to build more landfill sites and enhance waste collection facilities. The Accra Mayor, Michael Kpakpo Allotey, explained that the tricycles were procured using the Assembly's internally generated funds, as requested by assembly members within a short timeframe.
He highlighted that the initiative was a step towards fulfilling President John Dramani Mahama's vision of a cleaner and greener Accra. The AMA's Presiding Member, Musa Ziyad, stated that the tricycles would be distributed across the electoral areas to enable assembly members to promptly respond to sanitation complaints and manage accumulated refuse more effectively.
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