The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has pulled down six unauthorized makeshift urinal structures built over drains in the Korle Dudor electoral area due to what it described as public health risks to residents in the community.
The enforcement action followed a complaint raised by a resident to the Mayor of Accra, Hon. Michael Kpakpo Allotey, during the National Sanitation Day (NSD) tour on Saturday, February 7, 2026.
The mayor, after being led to the site, expressed dissatisfaction with the situation and directed that the facilities be removed, using the visit to engage with the residents who had raised additional sanitation-related concerns.
The removal activity formed part of a wider field engagement during the second edition of the NSD exercise, during which the mayor inspected clean-up activities from the Kinbu stretch through the Central Business District (CBD) to the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange.
At Kantamanto, he was met by traders selling on the streets and directed them to move off the roadway to improve vehicular movement and pedestrian flow, after which he moved to China Lane, where he asked shop owners to open their shops and do business, citing their compliance with NSD directives.
At the Arena Junction, residents raised concerns about choked drains, attributing the situation to deliberate blockage by some community members and waste left behind by traders who operate at night.
Residents suggested that shop owners should be prevented from opening their shops until drains were cleaned, arguing that refuse left after trading hours often ended up in the drains, contributing to stagnant water and mosquito breeding.
The Mayor later proceeded to the Agbogbloshie Market, where he inspected ongoing cleaning activities and interacted with traders urging them to sustain the clean-up efforts, report sanitation offenders to the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), and ensure that the market environment remained tidy.
He completed the NSD tour at the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange enclave, where he expressed satisfaction with the level of work and encouraged workers to intensify their efforts.
Speaking after the exercise, the mayor said the assembly was moving quickly to address the identified sanitation concerns and urged residents to bring such issues to the attention of the assembly for action.
He linked the push for daily sanitation operations to the 24-hour economy agenda being championed by the President of the Republic, H.E John Dramani Mahama, saying the arrangement supported the Assembly to work continuously.
He said the discipline being promoted through the ongoing decongestion effort had been positive in its first week, noting that traders and other business operators in the CBD had generally complied.
He stressed that cleanliness and order should become routine, urging traders to treat sanitation compliance as a lifestyle in the same way the first Saturday clean-up culture had become established.