We'll arrest and prosecute persons who litter sachet water waste on streets - AMA

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  • Cynthia 7 hours ago

    Authorities should enforce regulations by arresting those who burn rubbish.

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari. 6 hours ago

    Where should the trash be sent if the Trash Vehicles don’t come to pick up the Household, Market and Business trash left outside?

  • JDM 7 hours ago

    see where they take pass!! mtchwee

  • Akajatayogogo 7 hours ago

    You're a fool,a very big fool.I will not write the rest, you're a fool

  • Akajatayogogo 7 hours ago

    AMA, PROVE DUST BINS all over the City and educate the people, gradually, gradually we will be used to it. Provide the dust bins, educate us on radio,, on TV ,we will be use to it.

  • Louisah 6 hours ago

    Motherside fatherside country.No progress whatsoever.

  • MATTHEW 6 hours ago

    WAKU A COMMUNITY IN CHEREPONI DISTRICT WITH A POPULATION OF 2000, 154 HOUSES AND OTHER STRUCTURES LIKE SCHOOLS, CHURCHES, MOSQUES, MARKET, CLINIC DON'T HAVE LIGHT IN 21ST CENTURY. WHAT IS OUR CRIME?

  • FunnyGhana 6 hours ago

    AMA should just walk along the railway tracks and see the filth, the mess, the squatters right next to the tracks starting from Accra Central. Go along Fadama and Agbobloshie. The money you collect from fines will pay for the ...
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  • Nktt 6 hours ago

    Long over due

  • Nana 6 hours ago

    You can’t be everywhere all the time. Just put a deposit money on it. Add twenty pesewas on it. When you return it you get your money back. Otherwise forget if

  • JB Goode 5 hours ago

    Love this idea.

  • kelewele 6 hours ago

    Ghanaians act and think like animals. It will take over 20 generations down the line to have a more intelligent society in Ghana.

  • JB Goode 5 hours ago

    Poor are easy targets. Go for huge industrial pollution in Accra

  • AJ 5 hours ago

    Just ban plastic bags across the country. Kenya did it overnight. Make the sachet water manufacturers responsible for clearing up the litter or paying for the clean up. They might then think of say 5 pesewas on top of the sac ...
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  • Agbeli Kumordziì 5 hours ago

    We all welcome suxh policy which will make Accra looks clean again .Not only wate sachets that should include Yorkogari leafs and wakye leafsa d waste from fast food restaurants all over Ghana

  • Poppycock!!! 5 hours ago

    Your time will be better spent cleaning the gutters and rubbish skips around the capital!! How do you intend to police this initiative? A load of poppycock!!!

  • Oppong 4 hours ago

    Before you arrest anyone in ghana littering sachets on the streets make sure you have provided dash bin every where.so that people can use them.just look at dumesua

  • JOB 3 hours ago

    A good idea but targeted at the wrong people.Those to tackle are the rubers producers, imposed high tariff on them.

  • Fifi Afriyie 3 hours ago

    We need more waste dumping facilities like, toilets and rubbish disposal facilities eg bins.

  • Donboli 2 hours ago

    AMA is of no use. Money is not the problem, you can charge as much as you want and the problem is here to stay if AMA remains useless.

    Don't sell Water in plastic bags. Stop plastic bags use and All plastic will vanish.
    T ...
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  • Enough 2 hours ago

    All of you talking are not real cocoa farmers. If you are a cocoa farmer who starts from the beginning by tearing forest down to the time that you start harvesting you WILL not say you will accept any price the government giv ...
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  • GPS 45 minutes ago

    The whole nation Ghana must do the same thing NOT only Accra keep Ghana clean. The cattle herds must keep their cattle indoors and feed them. The whole Ghana don't need strange animals on the streets of Ghana, cattle, goats, ...
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  • Tosh 35 minutes ago

    Start by ensuring that street hawkers, who sell satchet water, and are mostly responsible for the litter, either clean up after their mess, or sell only at designated spots with bins. Get police and city guards to fine on the ...
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