Filth at market places unbearable

Dear Editor,
A Key feature of a progressive nation is its level of sanitation and waste management. Zoomlion and other corporate organisations, have over the years, worked to ensure our cities remain clean but it appears some indiscriminate conducts keep eroding their efforts. Some parts of the Greater Accra Region, including markets at the Kaneshie, Accra Central and Kasoa are engulfed in filth daily with traders liable for the mess. Some of them deliberately dispose waste at unapproved places, arguing that they pay market tolls, therefore, someone else is supposed to keep the market tidy. Recently, I witnessed heap of rubbish being carried away by heavy rains at the Kasoa market as the traders stood helplessly. I thought that would inform them to change their habit but greater volumes of the garbage
emerged the following day. A glance at roads leading to some big markets show plastic waste and heaps of rubbish as pedestrians, drivers and traders struggle to find their way through. It is sad to discover that both young and old condone this unhealthy practice. I, therefore, wish to encourage city authorities to
impose hefty fines on traders who dispose waste haphazardly to serve as deterrent to others. I believe the market places could be tidy but for the recklessness of some of these lawless merchants.

Priscilla Efriyie Anakpong Student,

University of Cape Coast