By: Napoleon Ato Kittoe
Madina, one of the densely-populated and busiest suburbs of Ghana’s capital Accra bears an ugly face which is poor sanitation.
A major lorry station which adjoins the Madina market continues to accumulate garbage in ways that also points to public indiscipline.
This is bound to happen where a lorry station and a market share the same premises. Unwanted items are discarded on the ground by the anonymity granted within milling crowds. The most foreseeable solutions to the problem are self-discipline on the part of commuters, provision of waste bins, and code of conduct enforcement by sanitary officers.
The users of the market and lorry station may also have to indulge communal labour from time to time.
The question that will lead for a solution is how the itinerant pedestrians dump waste material on the floor may be held accountable for their actions.
As a big market, the market floor needs some upgrading to make it decent.
