By Rachel Kakraba
An environmental group, ECO Conscious Citizens, has asked the La Dadekotopon Municipal Assembly (LaDMA), to initiate steps for the removal of public address systems from, tricycles that cart refuse, otherwise known as borla taxis, operating within the assembly.
The loud sounds from the tricycles to attract customers, the group noted, disturb the peace of citizens, predisposing them to health problems.
Coordinator of the Group, Awula Serwah, who made the appeal during a visit to LADMA, also asked the assembly to ensure churches and event centers comply with laws on noise making.
“We are not against the assembly, we recognise what they are doing and their challenges. We would hope that by the end of this month we’ve got some responses. If by October, we are still just coming for meetings and nothing seems to be done to address complaints, we may have to go to court.”
Established in 2019, ECO-Conscious Citizens is made up of environmentalists and residents within the La Dadekotopon Municipal Assembly, committed to ensuring a clean, green, healthy, and serene environment. The group expressed apprehension about the excessive noise they would be exposed to as the La Traditional Council lifts the ban on noise making. Coordinator of the Group, Awula Serwah, asked the Assembly to attach some seriousness to their concerns.
“Immediately, we have asked that the horns should be removed from Commercial vehicles.”
A representative of the Municipal Chief Executive, Stephen Kyei, assured the group that work has already commenced on some of their concerns.
“In time past, we didn’t have this monitoring team handling them. We also didn’t have noise meter. We’ve made progress by procuring noise meters. We have also got some of these event centers, pubs, come here to sign an undertaking, failure to adhere to our notices, then we take them on.”
Eco-Conscious citizens also called on the Municipal Assembly to conduct an audit of toilets in homes to end open defecation.
