Arrests And Prosecutions Under ‘Operation Clean Your Frontage’ To Start On Tuesday

The arrest and prosecution of persons who dump refuse indiscriminately in Accra under government’s ‘Operation Clean Your Frontage’ exercise will begin this week. The exercise, which is also backed by a new law will see city guards take action against persons whose surroundings are engulfed in filth. The Greater Accra Regional Minister,

Mr Henry Quartey, while cautioning individuals and then corporate entities to also ensure the cleanliness of their immediate surroundings to also prevent arrest, said the government has trained 1,000 members of the taskforce dubbed the City Response Team that would also ensure compliance with the sanitation by-law. The taskforce will

be out-doored on the Tuesday April 26, 2022]. Operation Clean Your Frontage is by-law, passed and duly gazette. If you are found dumping refuse indiscriminately, we have a law now to grab and then prosecute you. Come Tuesday, 1,000 men and women drawn from the Greater Accra Region have undergone intensive training at the

Bundase military camp. On the Tuesday, we will outdoor them. Under ‘Operation Clean Your Frontage’, you are to clean your house, immediate surroundings to the middle of the street. If you don’t do that, the law will also catch you, the minister said. Last week, he commissioned the ‘Operation Clean Your Frontage’ secretariat to receive

complaints from the public and relay them to various MMDAs in the Greater Accra Region for swift action. He also warned that, traders selling at unauthorized places should move to designated places to conduct business without fail. From this day on, the call centre will be here and all the MMDAs will have call centres manned by NSS

personnel and a taskforce led by ex-military officers. We expect that when a message is sent through the call centre, there will be a response within a maximum of one hour, in real-time, due to the traffic situation.