Workers who de-silt choked sewer lines in the Tema metropolis have threatened to quit working in the sewerages if residents continue to drop unfriendly materials into the system.
The workers� anger followed news of three other blasted sewers located behind the Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) block, the Community One Goil Filling Station and another one opposite the Goil Filling Station last Monday.
Last Saturday, the workers had to go about seven feet down the sewerage in the Community One Market to remove heavy materials like jeans trousers, sponges, condoms and other plastic and sanitary materials following an earlier blasting of a sewerage in the area.
They complained that the bad attitude of some residents was putting their health at risk.
�We are not paid well and, as if that is not enough, we risk our health by removing materials that are unfriendly to the sewer lines. When we complain and tell residents to change their attitude they tell us our job is to de-silt,� a spokesperson told The Finder.
The workers said they could not understand why residents would continue to insult them when it was their own bad habits which caused the sewerages to blast.
�These residents call us names when our boss sends us to rectify problems. We are sounding this warning to them that the next time there is a blast and we find these unwanted materials in the lines we will quit. We also have a family,� the spokesperson said.
Meanwhile, the earlier sewerage blasting which occurred at the Community One Central Business Market (CBM) has been corrected.
The Ghana Fire Service and Zoomlion were at the area last Monday to wash the floors of the dumped human excreta and disinfect the whole area in order to make the place convenient for traders.
Mr Kempes Ofosuware, Chief Executive of the metropolis, appealed to the traders to cultivate the habit of good sanitation, and charged them to educate their colleagues to desist from dropping materials that can block the sewer lines.
The traders, on their part, apologised to Kempes for speaking ill of him and the assembly after the area�s sewerage blast which rendered their business inoperable for two weeks.
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