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07 Feb

We Will Focus On Improving Air Quality – AMA Health Director

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The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has announced that the 2024 Clean Ghana Campaign will focus on improving air quality in the country’s capital. This follows the recent IQAir index, which named Accra as the leading city in the world with the poorest air quality. Launching this year’s edition at Chorkor in Accra on February 7, Metropolitan Public Health Director, Florence Kuukyi, said they chose to begin the campaign in the area because it was identified as one of the hotspots of air pollution in Accra due to the mass production of smoked fish. “Today we are in Chorkor, a place…

07 Feb

Korle Bu Teaching Hospital To Hand Over Morgue To AMA

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The Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) in Accra is to hand over the hospital’s mortuary to the Accra Metropolitan Assembly to be used as a city morgue for the preservation of unidentified bodies. This is after the hospital has completed the construction of a new mortuary it is working on as part of activities to commemorate its centenary anniversary. The Chief Executive Officer of the hospital, Dr Opoku Ware Ampomah, who disclosed this in an interview with the Daily Graphic in Accra, said the construction of the new morgue project was under a private-public partnership agreement. The hospital was established…

01 May

AMA To Prosecute Traders Who Sell On The Streets – Mayor

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Elizabeth Kwatsoe Tawiah Sackey, Chief Executive of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly, has expressed dissatisfaction with the state of the Agbogbloshie market and the sanitary situation. The AMA boss stated that there is a high rate of indiscriminate waste disposal in the market. She lamented that they have returned despite the AMA’s efforts to desilt clogged gutters in the market, relocate traders who sell along the road, and clear vehicles parked on the road’s shoulders. She warned that the AMA would embark on a decongestion exercise that would not be a nine-day wonder but a continuous exercise carried out regularly until…

30 Mar

AMA Engages Stakeholders On Progress Of ICA Pilot Programme In Accra

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The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has engaged stakeholders in the city on the progress of the Inclusive Climate Action Pilot Programme (ICA) in Accra. The stakeholders’ engagement which was supported by the C40 Cities, a climate leadership group sought to among other things showcase the progress of the city’s action on informal sector inclusion and integration through the Inclusive Climate Action Programme, provide a supplementary space for interdepartmental collaboration on ICA as well as outdoor and disseminate key advocacy materials produced to support informal sector integration goals. The event which was attended by representatives from academia, government, civil society and…

27 Jan

AMA To Roll Out Digital Revenue Collection System In March 2023

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The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has announced plans to introduce a new digitise revenue collection system in March this year to improve on and to rake in more revenue for the Assembly. The new platform which is expected to make payments more convenient is also aimed at checking revenue leakages and reducing alleged corruption while promoting voluntary compliance and a conducive rate-paying environment. The Mayor of Accra, Elizabeth Kwatsoe Tawiah Sackey disclosed this on Thursday, January 26th when she led a team of officers from the Assembly to sensitise traders on the roll-out of new receipts for payment of markets…

14 Oct

Operation Clean Your Frontage: AMA Arrest Woman For Allegedly Dumping Refuse Into Drain At Chorkor

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AMA officials have arrested a woman for dumping refuse into a drain at Chorkor, a suburb of Accra during yesterday’s downpour. The culprit identified as Lydia Gyimah was arrested on Wednesday when the Mayor of Accra, Hon. Elizabeth Kwatsoe Sackey led a joint team of the Operation Clean Your Frontage (OPCYF) Taskforce to embark on an enforcement exercise within the Ablekuma South Sub-Metropolitan District to ensure a clean city. Confirming the arrest in an interaction with some residents and children of the area, the first female Mayor of Accra said the AMA was determined to bring to book, persons who violate sanitation…

06 Oct

‘Address Challenges To Sustain Gains Of On-going Clean-up Operation’

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An Environmental Health Analyst at the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), Mr. Joseph A. Asitanga, has hinted that until some challenges were addressed, the gains made from the ongoing clean-up exercise would not have the needed impact. The challenges, he enumerated, included the unwillingness of the squatters to assist in the clean-up; non availability of access routes and the claim that they (the squatters had not been informed). He, therefore, called for more information on the project. He observed that if the above challenges were not addressed, the desired results from the clean-up operation will not be achieved. He made the…

04 Oct

Operation Clean Your Frontage Kick-starts Daily Clean-up Exercise From October – December 31

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As part of the Operation Clean Your Frontage campaign, the Greater Accra Regional Ministry, in collaboration with the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) and Zoomlion Ghana Limited, has begun a three-month clean-up operation to sanitise and keep the streets of Accra metropolis clean. The exercise, which will be done daily throughout the three-month period, is also targeted at desilting choked drains and gutters to allow free flow of water, particularly when the rains have started falling. Additionally, the operation's task force who comprises personnel from the security services are expected to ensure the streets of Accra are rid of all obstructions.…