The Cape Coast Mayor, Hon. George Justice Arthur, has cracked down on residents and commercial drivers who have periodically declined to participate in the city's sanitation exercise.

Hon. George Justice Arthur's action follows the Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly's (CCMA) final sanitation exercise for year 2025, held on Saturday, December 20. A periodic exercise which sort to enhance sanitation and promote personal hygiene within the metropolis and comes off every first Saturday of the month.

The exercise which saw the entire 45 communities within CCMA cleaned up, also witnessed some commercial vehicles, particularly pragya drivers impounded for non-involvement and reluctance to comply by the Assembly's strict directive to clean up the city from 6am-10am, where no commercial vehicle, trader or food vendor is expected to operate within the stipulated period but offer his or her involvement to the exercise.

Meanwhile, most of these individuals, particularly pragya drivers were sited roaming the streets onboard with passengers, which saw the key to their vehicles seized with their number plates penciled down for necessary actions to be levelled against them. 

Addressing the media during the exercise, the Cape Coast Mayor in expressing his efforts to make Cape Coast the cleanest city in Ghana, disclosed to introduce a sanitation court by 2026 to deal with residents who have made it a point to always litter and have the city engulf with filth to face stiff sanctions when found culpable by the court.

He, however, commended the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) for its selfless effort in collaborating with LCB Worldwide Ghana to fumigate shops and market centres of the city during the clean up exercise, as means to enhance food safety and hygienic market place for traders to sell, especially in a period entering into the christmas festivity.

Paul Kofi McCarthy, the Central Regional Chairman for GUTA in an interview with Sompa TV's Eric Annan uncovered the motivation behind the association's activity in supporting CCMA's undertaken sanitation drive.

He underscored that the fumigation exercise sort to tackle the spread of any airborne and infectious disease within market centres and shops within Cape Coast and thus get raid of insects and bacterias who finds itself within the market space. 

The well appreciated fumigation exercise saw market centres like the Kotokuraba, Anafo, and the Abura markets together with shops close by all thoroughly fumigated for the wellbeing of individuals who access these facilities.

Sompaonline.com//Eric Annan