KMA takes action against sanitation defaulters

As expected, when an inspection team from the metropolitan assembly visited the two installations the following day, it found the places well cleaned. But, that notwithstanding, Mr Bonsu said the assembly would still go ahead and serve the owners with a writ of summons for them to appear before the courts.

The owner of the hotel, Mr Opoku Sika, told Daily Graphic that he forgot that the day was a National Sanitation Day.

He blamed the dirty surroundings on security personnel stationed at the washing bay who allowed residents in the area to throw garbage into the gutters.

Last month, the Chief Executive Officer of KMA warned that shops that stayed open while clean-up activities were going on would be locked up and the owners prosecuted.

Mr Bonsu said he had taken the latest incident seriously because ever since the beginning of the National Sanitation Day exercise, a number of shops at Asafo and other places in the city had shown little interest in the activity. Under the circumstances, he said the KMA was determined to do everything to whip up interest in the exercise.

The latest National Sanitation Day exercise in Kumasi had residents clean many areas in the city, including the Aboabo station at Alabar, the Kumasi Central Market and the Kejetia Bus Terminal.