The MCE (Middle) leads his team on the tour
NEWLY ELECTED Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for the Okaikwei North Municipal Assembly, Mr. Boye Laryea, has embarked on a three-day tour within the municipality after being sworn into office a few weeks ago.
The exercise which spanned from Monday, August 6, to Wednesday, August 8, aimed at ascertaining the borders of the municipality and also to verify the sanitation issues as well as other important aspects of the municipal assembly.
Mr. Laryea, together with a team made up of representatives from the Sanitation, Works and Development Departments of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) went round the municipality, inspecting its borders, drainage systems, overall layout of the towns that make up the municipality and also to formally introduce himself to his people.
On the first day of the tour, the MCE with his team toured the Anumli electoral area which comprises towns in Christian Village, Kisseiman and Achimota.
On the second day, he visited the Anorhuma electoral area which has Nii Boiman, Fishpond, parts of Tabora, Race Course in Lapaz and the Kata Down towns.
The final day of the tour was a day set aside for a meeting with the traditional rulers within the municipality where the MCE had a fruitful meeting with the chiefs. Issues bordering on the development and wellbeing of the municipality and people were discussed.
During the tour, the MCE discovered several anomalies such as poor drainage systems, poor sanitation issues, sale of commodities on streets and pavements, among others.
He stopped the construction of some buildings that were being put up without permits and also ensured that items placed on sale on pavements and streets were evacuated with immediate effect.
Speaking to the press, the MCE said the menace of poor sanitation and its related consequences such as floods was a result of indiscipline, an unfortunate development he was ready to tackle head on.
As part of measures to curb the indiscipline in sanitation matters facing the municipal assembly, the MCE said his office would see to the training of some youths who would ‘keep watch’ in the town on a regular basis.
These trained men would be given the power to arrest persons who would dump refuse into drains or at wrong places.
Culprits would first be sent to the court and after being found guilty, they would be dragged to gutters or other drainages in their places of residence and made to collect the refuse in them.
BY: Nii Adjei Mensahfio