Accra - The cleanest city of Africa in the making.

We were told Accra would be made the cleanest city in Africa; and so you see the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) officials sacking hawkers from the pavements on the streets of Accra and ceasing the goods of those who fail to pack in time.

City of Accra in filth

Not everyone is lucky enough to pay the set fines as penalty for failure to comply but none of such ceased goods spend the night under seizure. Pavement hawking is as old as the city and its very streets and so before hawkers are cleared off the streets, an alternate spot suitable for all hawkers must first be provided. The question of a ready market and stores accordingly apportioned to sellers and traders must be accurately answered to fully stop hawking on the pavements of our streets.

A walk through the city of Accra, in and around the streets of Accra Breweries Ltd just after the little rain showers today September 7, some strategic portions on the streets are still logged in filth and stagnant water. You see A.M.A. officials chasing hawkers all over while these filths lie comfortably unattended to. Vehicles and unsuspecting market women and head porters (kayayeis) kept these mashed up till the water and its contents changed colors beyond recognition.

The truth to this scene is that this picture of filth is not the same everywhere around the city of Accra. The irony is that it gets even colorful as every spot has its own degree of filth in description. Perhaps this is the beauty of the cleanest city our honorable mayor promised the people of Ghana, nobody must protest...yet.

I only am creating the awareness that if what is lying there is what was promised, then I want to be the first person to say that I have heard and seen it all before; It's all in the game of politics and how it's played.

THə CŁƏrk.
(A Pressure Group, Klikor and Diaspora)