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The La-Nlwantanang-Madina Municipal Assembly's (LaNMMA) Sanitation Task Force, on Saturday arrested 13 persons who flouted the laws of the 11th National Sanitation Day exercise within the Municipality. The arrested included six trotro drivers and seven market women for refusing to participate in the clean-up exercise at the Madina lorry station and market. These recalcitrant persons were loading their vehicles, while the market women were selling their wares. Others too had opened their stores while the clean-up exercise was in progress. They were fined �50 each by the Task Force which comprised the Madina Police and LaNMMA Task Force. The 11th National Sanitation Day which began at 6.00am at Madina and its environs, involved most of the communities, market women, traders along the principal streets, and staff of LaNMMA. They swept their environments, desilted gutters, and weeded bushy areas. The staff of LaNMMA with the assistance of Alliance Waste Company's compaction truck and a hired tipper truck went round the principal streets and collected dumped refuse and other waste materials that had been deposited along the road for disposal. . Speaking with the Head of Sanitation of LaNMMA, Mr. Joseph Quacoe, he told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that the exercise covered Zongo Junction to Social Welfare, Hanna Road, the three lorry stations, the Madina Central Market and from Zongo Junction to Ritz Junction. Mr. Quacoe expressed satisfaction with work done, and said the participation was massive. The Assembly supplied wheel-barrows, alley-brooms, shovels, rakes gloves and nose masks for the exercise.