🇬🇭 A video captures a young adult being disciplined by a soldier at Danquah Circle after he was seen throwing rubbish into a gutter following today’s cleaning exercise.
Many have called for sustained enforcement of sanitation rules, saying consistent discipline and public responsibility could help build a cleaner Ghana.
A Ghana National Fire Service officer sprang into action by chasing down a moving trotro after spotting a young woman throw a sachet rubber onto the road, compelling her to get off the vehicle and go for the rubber before allowing the journey to continue.
[🎥: Mahmie_Anet]
I love reading David’s crash-outs in the Psalms. 😭 One minute he’s praising God, the next he’s pouring out his frustration about evil, injustice, and why the wicked seem to prosper. It’s comforting to know that even a man after God’s own heart brought his hardest questions to God.
Structural and political will can't be replaced by performative nonsense.. Citizens don't have to clean shit. What are the MMDCEs there for? Let the laws work and also pay cleaners and make sure they do their jobs
All of them talk about "development" but want to be MPs. MPs should be concerned about reforming laws. He should be busily discussing laws that hurt the people and how he'll advocate to change them.
DCEs should be the ones doing these development gimmicks
A looming public health crisis is emerging in the Kwame Nkrumah Circle commercial enclave as the Odawna drain remains choked with tonnes of refuse and filth following the June 29 floods.
[🎥: Manuel Ideas]
Let’s use this as a case study. The people have “fixed themselves.” They showed up and cleaned. What sustains that order? Working systems. Proper law enforcement. Effective governance. “Fix yourself” only holds when the system works too.
Fix the system.
Fix the system.
Gaslight citizens into thinking it’s their fault that the city is dirty because they don’t do enough (even though the government does great things like picking up a shovel) to clean the city.
Cities far larger than Accra don’t run national clean-up exercises to manage solid waste. You have to address the root cause. A two-day cleaning exercise does nothing about waste generation and collection. Who dumps trash in drains when they know it will be collected every week or every other week?
You have to invest in waste transfer stations. Collection trucks deposit waste there before it is hauled to the final disposal site. That cuts travel time and stops waste being dumped or burned in communities.
You also need to invest in additional final disposal capacity. The Kpone landfill has been nearly full since 2019. Current analysis says it could be shut down in six months.
I’m not coming up with any new ideas. I’m regurgitating the appraisal document for the $350m Greater Accra Resilient and Integrated Development Project (GARID) project, which allocated US$42.2 million to solid waste management: transfer stations, capping old dumpsites, and extending disposal capacity.
We have the ideas and the funding to attack Accra’s floods from different angles. Why are we still looking at communal labour and the associated clown show to deal with waste management?
You guys actually deserve your leaders because people are rightly pointing out that there’s a better way to deal with this sanitation problem, and citizens have paid more than enough taxes to that effect but some of you are still defending it so, nea mo bɛ yɛ biaa wai.
Today’s clean-up proved something: “fix yourself” only goes so far. People cleaned. Rubbish was gathered. Now what? Without proper waste management services and sanitation law enforcement, we’re treating symptoms, not the problem.
Fix the system.
I lost my memory for almost two months after delivery. 😭I’d call anyone passing by to come and carry the baby in my room because I genuinely didn’t know whose baby it was.
My husband said he’d just pet me and calmly tell me, “Please breastfeed the baby before the mother comes”