The Tema Metropolitan Assembly on Saturday 3rd March engaged residents, hawkers and other stakeholders in the Metropolis to introduce the Assembly’s action plan aimed at transforming the cooperate image of the hahour city.

The Mayor of the Tema, Honourable Felix Mensah Nii Anang-La, made his plans known after leading a clean-up exercise to get the Metropolis ready for Ghana’s 61st   Independence Anniversary celebration. According to him, some people need to be reminded of their duties and rights and the need to keep the maritime and industrial hub clean and beautiful to attract major investors.

Those who have sheds in the Community One market but have turned them into warehouses where they keep their goods at night and move them to the pavements to sell the following morning were advised to desist from doing so.

“The Assembly today is giving the final notice to owners of the sheds to occupy them or they would be reallocated. The Assembly as part of its measures to eject squatters on the dilapidated Meridian Hotel building would soon block all entry points into the building” the mayor said.

A month notice was earlier given to hawkers and owners of kiosks located at unauthorised places to relocate.

The 61st independence anniversary clean-up exercise was launched in Accra with a focus on keeping Ghana clean and help redeem the image of the country from recent reports putting Ghana among the dirtiest countries in the world.

Mr Anang-La said Tema had a crucial role to play in the national agenda of environmental cleanliness and the good health of the individual is the key component for wealth creation.

He said Tema was a well-planned city with great potentials for investment and that the containers and kiosks which were put on pavements, sewer pipes and waterways at the central business district were taking away the beauty of the city.

The Greenwich Meridian line passes through the Presbyterian Church where Prince Philip, a Royal of the British Monarchy commissioned in the Millennium and this would be developed into a major tourist attraction site in Tema which will not only beautify the city but also generate revenue for the development of Tema.

He said apart from the Community One main market, there are other markets at communities Two, Four, Seven, Nine and Sakumono which have been abandoned and sellers have flooded the streets of the central business area creating vehicular and pedestrian congestion.