Despite the National Sanitation Day exercise introduced by government to rid the country of filth, many residents and supervising authorities still exhibit indifference towards garbage.
For 52 days now, waste that was collected from the gutters along the road that links the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) to the Prempeh Assembly Hall which is close to the Kumasi Anglican Senior High School wall has been left uncollected.
During the June edition of the National Sanitation Day exercise, a similar problem occurred at Asawasi, also a suburb in Kumasi, when Nana Appiasah, the chief of Adumakase Kesseh personally hired wheel barrows and other cleaning equipment to clean filth in the area, but after the exercise the refuse was left there on the streets.
This reporter who took the trouble to count the number of days (from June 1) the refuse has been there has always joined the residents in the area to clear filth in each of the National Sanitation Day exercise that has been organized in the area since December 2014.
A resident who spoke to the Daily Heritage said “due to the attitude of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly, most residents at Asawase declined to take part in the July edition of the National Sanitation Day because they were complaining that they have been wasting their energy to clean-up the gutters because the refuse comes back after a few days due to the heavy downpour in Kumasi.”
During the tour, the paper also observed that work done by Zoomlion workers and some students who emptied gutters during the June exercise had been fruitless as the refuse had been washed back into the gutters.
On the streets from Dr. Mensah to Alabar, to the boundary of WAEC and Asawase, the situation was the same.
”What is annoying is that contestants of the District Assembly elections have pasted their posters close to the waste as if they have not seen anything,” a resident noted.
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