President John Dramani Mahama has urged all Ghanaians to come out and join the post-flood cleanup exercise ongoing in seven regions of the country.
The President made the call on day two of the exercise while on a tour of Alajo, one of the most affected areas by the floods on June 29.
“The turn out yesterday was good. I see a lot of people out today as well. Those of you who are yet to come join, come out and let’s do this together,” he said on July 11.
The President added, “Ghana is a resilient country. We will come out of this together.”
He ordered immediate opening and operationalization of six transfer stations that were built over nine years ago for the waste to be disposed of there.
“Yesterday, one of the directives I gave was that in the past we do these clean-ups, we take all the garbage out of the gutters, but we don’t follow up and come and collect the garbage that is by the roadside. And so when the rain falls, it just washes all the dirt back in,” he said.
President Mahama noted that the focus on day two of the exercise is to ensure that garbage taken out of the drains are disposed of appropriately.
“We’ve had six transfer stations that were built more than nine years ago. Unfortunately, they were not put into operation. So, we have asked the contractor to open the transfer stations that is the Zoomlion so that they can take the garbage to the transfer stations,” he said.
“The army and the other agencies will continue until we are able to clear all the garbage that was taken out of the drains,” the President added.
