Waste management company, Zoomlion Ghana Limited on Friday, joined the Sanitation Ministry and the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) to clean the Agbogbloshie market.

The traders at Agbogbloshie and Kokomba markets in Accra, are noted for bad sanitary practices as some of them display their wares on the bare floor with drains choked with filth.

During the clean up which presented the opportunity to educate the traders on the need to keep the environment clean, Sanitation and Water Resources Minister,  Cecilia Abena Dapaah together with her team and some personnel from the AMA, engaged the traders on the need to desist from any unhygienic practices.

They told them the unsanitary condition of the market could put the health of their patrons at risk since the market centres served as a major food basket for most residents in and around Accra including restaurants.

“As market women, there is the need to pay attention to food preparation, handling, storage and display to keep us healthy’, she advised.

The Chief Executive of the AMA, Mohammed Adjei Sowah, told the market women to be prepared to help government achieved the ‘clean city agenda’ since “cleanliness is a shared responsibility.”

On his part, the Accra Zonal Manager of Zoomlion, Ernest Morgan Acquah, explained that the company provided personnel, logistics and other resources to support the Ministry to undertake the clean up exercise.

He said the company is committed to helping President Nana Akufo-Addo to achieve the agenda of making Accra the cleanest city in the sub-region and called for the need for residents to develop a good culture of keeping waste into waste bins for collection.

The traders also asked for refuse containers to be stationed at vantage points to help them easily dispose of refuse to prevent the indiscriminate dumping of waste at unauthorised places.