HEALTH

Massive 3-day clean-up in Accra by Sanitation Ministry & AMA

&NewLine;<p>As part of its Corporate Social Responsibility&comma; CSR&comma; Waste management expert&comma; Zoomlion Ghana limited in collaboration with the Ministry of Sanitation &amp&semi; Water Resources together with the Accra Metropolitan Assembly has been involved in a holistic clean up of markets and other major beehives of commercial activities in Accra&comma; Ghana’s capital&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>This patriotic corporate&NewLine;effort&comma; according to a statement from Dickson Boabi&comma; has received commendation&NewLine;from Hon&period; Cecilia Abena Dapaah&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>She commended the group&NewLine;Chairman of Zoomlion Ghana Dr&period; Joseph Siaw Agyepong&comma; for his tremendous efforts&NewLine;in fighting the COVID 19 through sanitation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;04&sol;clean-7&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-2826"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The Hon advised the public&NewLine;to practice social distancing and ensure they use handkerchiefs&comma; tissues and&NewLine;sanitizers any time they get engaged&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>However&comma; the mayor of&NewLine;Accra Hon&period; Mohammed Nii Adjei Sowah said that the clean up exercise would not&NewLine;be limited to Accra&period; He assured that similar cleanup efforts are also on going&NewLine;in Kumasi<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;This is simultaneous&NewLine;exercise going on in Accra and kumasi so whatever is being done here same thing&NewLine;is being done in Kumasi&comma; adding that<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;04&sol;clean-3&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-2827"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;As I indicated&NewLine;earlier we are cleaning all the gutters in Accra and we are not going to use&NewLine;only our shovels and the wheelbarrows alone&period; We are deploying backholes&comma; articulators&NewLine;and all heavy equipment machinery that are necessary for use for the next three&NewLine;days&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he promised&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Speaking further on the&NewLine;clean up exercise&comma; Hon&period; Adjei Sowah said that they are &nbsp&semi;going to collect refuse and dispose it from&NewLine;all public places that includes markets&comma; lorry stations&comma; streets of Accra and&NewLine;the public within the city&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>He added that government&NewLine;would make sure the litter bins mounted along the streets of Accra are empty&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;04&sol;Clean-1024x683&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-2828"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Hon&period; Sowah heaped praises&NewLine;on the Zoomlion Ghana Limited Chairman for his selfless role in making sure&NewLine;mother Ghana wins the fight against the deadly COVID-19&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The central business&NewLine;centre&comma; Agbogloshie Market&comma; kaneshie market benefited from the clean up exercise&NewLine;on the first day&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The clean up exercise was&NewLine;done by the Ghana Armed forces&comma; Ghana Prison Service&comma; Ghana Fire Service and&NewLine;staffs from zoomlion Ghana Limited&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;04&sol;clean1-1024x683&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-2829"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; the Minister of Finance Hon&period; Ken Ofori-Attah in his statement said World Bank has released &dollar;65 million out of the &dollar;100 million the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo led government budgeted to help fight &nbsp&semi;Covid 19&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I know the situation&NewLine;is going to bring &nbsp&semi;a lot of hardship&period; As&NewLine;the President said&comma; much as we are competent in managing the economy but we are&NewLine;not competent to bring people back to life&period; So we have to do everything we can&NewLine;do to secure our people by fighting the disease&comma;&&num;8221&semi; the Hon Minister stated&period;&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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