The Mayor of Accra, Michael Kpakpo Allotey, has ordered the prosecution of Samir Engineering, a spare-parts company at Abossey Okai, Vision Transport, and 35 other individuals and business operators for refusing to close their shops and participate in Saturday’s citywide clean-up exercise under the relaunched National Sanitation Day.
The offenders mostly located at Tuesday market, Korle-Bu are Joseph Angela Tagoe, Sandra Mills, Elisabeth Quaye, Stella Adams, Eric Amenu, Vida Borbi, Victoria Allotey, Barbra Mills, Margaret Boafo, and Monica Tubelo.
Others include Samir Engineering, Kingsley Arthur, Abdul Aziz Ibrahim, and the management of Vision Transport, Aruko, and the manager of Kolaa and VVIP Transport Services, all located at Abossey Okai, Kaneshie First Light, Avenor, and Agbogbloshie Market, respectively, as well as Janet Nartey, Ernest Yeboah, Francis Salla, Grace, and Lillian Collins.
The rest are Hajia Barikisu, Edward, Forgive, Francisca Bediako, Monica Akua, Evelyn Addo, and Adjetey Laryea, also at Korle–Bu.
According to the Mayor, the affected businesses and individuals ignored the Accra Metropolitan Assembly’s (AMA) directive requiring all shops and markets to remain closed while residents cleaned their immediate surroundings describing their actions as “a blatant disregard for lawful authority” that undermines collective efforts to improve sanitation across the metropolis.
