The Asokwa Municipal Assembly has hinted at institutionalising 'Operation Clean Your Frontage' to improve environmental sanitation within the municipality.

Municipal Chief Executive, Akwannuasa Gyimah, said stakeholder consultative meetings are ongoing to kick start the project.

Speaking on ‘Luv in the Morning’ on Luv FM with host David Akuetteh, the MCE revealed that a public sensitisation will take place as part of the project take off.

“We are going to institute ‘Operation Clean Your Frontage’, but for now, we are going to educate people and give them some time.

“Though we’ve done that sometime back since we want to kick in this, we are going to embark on public education.

“We are having meetings with stakeholders; those creating and sitting by filth, we are going to engage them, so they understand before we kick this in,” said Mr Gyimah.

The MCE described the sanitation situation at Asokwa as usual, though some areas in the municipality are engulfed in filth, choking most drainage systems and eventually flooding the areas.

Despite proactive measures to curb flooding within Greater Kumasi, Mr Gyimah bemoaned the insanitary attitude of citizens.

“The attitude of the people of Kumasi should change. The most thing that we do is to desilt the drains, but unfortunately, it is done today, and the next day, people will throw it in the garbage. So, it has become a daily routine which I find very unfortunate,” he observed.

The Asokwa MCE revealed his Assembly is engaging other local assemblies within Greater Kumasi to manage filth emanating from their end to the Asokwa municipality.

“Asokwa is located at the Southern part of Kumasi, so all this filth comes from upstream, and we are at the receiving end.

“All the major streams in Kumasi run through Asokwa before entering the Oda. So as much as we desilt the gutters, we still get these things coming.

“We are engaging other municipalities within Greater Kumasi. People have to come to terms with the fact that we don’t dump filth in gutters. We have to educate the people to change their attitude.

“From next week, we are going to desilt most of the gutters in Asokwa,” he said.