The initiative, Nkrumah stated, as part of the implementation processes, the whole municipality would be divided into zones or communities and given a unique name for identification with selected volunteers from the com­munity as leaders.

“We are going to implement a Grid Community programme as a means of curbing the continuous littering of our gutters and the indiscriminate dumping of refuse in the municipality,” Mr Nkrumah said.

The Coordinating Director made this known on Saturday during the monthly sanitation day clean-up programme in the area.

He explained that the core duty of the volunteers who would be selected from among the commu­nity, security services, NADMO, LaDMA and others was to ensure sanitation laws were adhered to on daily bases and also channel concerns of their area to the assembly.

According to Mr Nkrumah, secret cameras would also be fixed at vantage locations to record people who go against the sanita­tion rules and prepared them for the courts for prosecution.

The Director also mentioned that the Grid Community pro­gramme would in no way replace the monthly clean-up exercise, rather it would complement it to ensure the environs of LaDMA were always tidy.

He was, however, not happy about the behaviour of market women selling in-front of the La Market building instead of doing business inside and ordered them to stop trading there with immedi­ate effect.

“I have instructed that, hence­forth the market women should stop selling in-front of the building and also on the pave­ment around the market area and anyone found trading there after the clean-up will be arrested and arranged before the court for prosecution” he cautioned.

Mr Nkrumah further outlined that the activities of the market women in-front of the market and on the streets created several chal­lenges for motorist and customers who use the area.

He extended gratitude to shop owners, residents, security services and other individuals and organ­isations, for joining the clean-up exercise.

The Municipal Environmental Health Officer of LaDMA, Isaac Enim, said the assembly’s trucks were on the standby to clear all garbage removed from the gutters and after which the gutters will be flushed with water.