The Adentan Municipal Assembly in the Greater Accra Region has launched a week-long sanitation drive aimed at restoring cleanliness across the municipality.

The exercise is intended to ensure that residents take responsibility for the waste they generate, become aware of the consequences of improper waste disposal, and understand the sanctions spelt out for individuals and businesses that refuse to keep their frontages clean or participate in environmental sanitation activities.

The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Ms Ella Christine Esinam Nongo, disclosed this after a massive clean-up exercise in the municipality on Friday, as part of activities marking National Sanitation Day.

She said the Environmental Health Unit would combine public education with intensive manual and mechanical cleaning of major roads and public spaces across the municipality.

According to her, the time had come to take the sanitation message directly to residents to secure their full participation in maintaining a clean and safe environment.

“It is the residents who generate the refuse and therefore must take full responsibility for its proper disposal. Anything short of that will not be accepted because environmental sanitation is a shared responsibility,” she stated.

Ms Nongo cautioned residents, businesses and, particularly, squatters living in unapproved areas within the municipality to strictly adhere to the sanitation bye-laws or face sanctions.

The MCE, who led Friday’s exercise, said daily cleanliness activities would be spearheaded by consistent public awareness announcements at dawn and in the evenings across targeted communities to educate residents on the exercise and the expected level of compliance.

She explained that daily operations would run from 6:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, during which shops and stores would be required to close to allow uninterrupted cleaning activities.

Sanitation teams deployed across the 12 electoral areas assisted residents to sweep and desilt choked drains along key corridors, including the Ritz Junction to Pantang Junction, Barrier to Housing Down, the Member of Parliament’s office road through the Aviation Roundabout to Third Gate, School Junction to Otanor Ability Square, and from School Junction to Nmai-Dzorn through Otanor.

Both manual crews and mechanical sweepers removed accumulated silt from roadsides and pavement edges, while public spaces and major streets were cleared of debris.

The Municipal Task Force and Environmental Health prosecutors were on hand to enforce compliance and ensure the smooth conduct of the exercise.

The teams also cleared waste from the Adentan Lorry Station following last week’s demolition exercise, aimed at restoring the facility to acceptable sanitary standards—an action that demonstrates the Assembly’s commitment to visible and practical results.