THE Tamale Metropolitan Assembly (TAMA) has expressed concern over the indiscriminate posting of bills on streetlights, road signs and buildings located around the central business district (CBD) of the Tamale metropolis.
The assembly observed that such acts generated a lot of waste in gutters and in drains along the CBD, and that whenever it rained, it created filth and undermined efforts at making the city clean.
The Head of Waste Management Department of the TAMA, Mr Abubakari Zakari, observed that, but for the commitment of the department and of other stakeholders towards the maintenance of a clean environment in the metropolis, the city would have been engulfed in filth, as a result of such indiscriminate posting of bills by some unscrupulous individuals.
“Event organisers are the worst offenders of such negative acts, which create a lot of nuisance in the metropolis; when they commit such acts, we don’t see them and so they go scot-free,” he stressed.
Mr Zakari equally expressed regret that the bills, after serving their purpose, were not removed by some event organisers, and that, he said, created a lot of problems for sanitary inspectors and sweepers of the city.
The Tamale Metropolitan Works Engineer, Mr Stephen Tecku, for his part, observed that political parties were the worst offenders and alleged that they posted bills on their political activities on road signs.
“When they do those things, it looks so ugly that my heart bleeds anytime I see such things; but unfortunately, we are unable to trace and arrest the perpetrators,” the engineer further noted.
He, therefore, suggested to the TAMA to establish community sign boards at vantage points in the CBD, where residents could easily locate them and were made aware of the events.
Mr Tecku also stressed the need for the assembly to charge such offending organisers to pay a token for posting of such bills.
Some residents have also condemned the act and urged event organisers to stop posting bills to help keep the metropolis clean.
They condemned the practice and said houseowners were not always consulted before such bills were posted on their buildings.
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