Some officers of the Greater Accra City Response Team (CRT) recruited to enforce ‘Operation Clean Your Frontage’ campaign have passed out after intensive training.
Minister for the Interior Mr. Ambrose Dery urged the officers to work hard and be disciplined in the discharge of their duties.
Mr. Ambrose Dery, who represented President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, made the appeal at the passing out ceremony of the first batch of the Greater Accra City Response Team Course 1, 2022.
In all, 867 CRT trainees passed out after four weeks of rigorous training at the Army Peace Operation Training School (APOTS) of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) at Burma Camp yesterday.
The Greater Accra City Response Team module is under the ‘Operation Clean Your Frontage’ campaign, which was launched by President Akufo-Addo in October, last year.
The four-week course trained the CRT officers in traffic management, voice procedure reporting, first aid, VIP protection, crowd control, sensitising Ghanaians on good sanitation practices among others.
Four recruits, Ernestina Afriyie, Florence Jean, Caleb Mensah and Ransford Lartey, were adjudged the Overall Best Student and Best Student in Bravo Company, Best Student in Challenge Company, and Best Student in Delta Company respectively.
The Interior Minister charged the CRT trainees to endeavour to work within the confines of the law.
“Always work within the confines of the law, and in the discharge of your mandate, you must see the citizenry as partners and endeavour to always uphold your relationship with them”, Mr. Dery entreated the recruits.
He said it was crucial that Ghanaians put their hands to the wheel and support the ‘Let’s Make Accra Work’ agenda to become successful.
Mr. Dery commended the Greater Accra Regional Coordinating Council under the able leadership of Mr. Henry Quartey for this initiative, adding that it will make it obligatory for the citizenry and corporate organisations to “clean and green their frontages.”
According to him, “Let’s Make Accra Work” campaign was a “transformational agenda” in response to President Akufo-Addo’s vision of making Accra the cleanest city in Africa.
He said under the agenda, “CRT is expected to enforce traffic regulations, enforce the ban on tricycles on highways, enforce the cleaning and greening of frontages and sanitation bye-laws. They will also sensitise Ghanaians on the need to change their attitudes towards the environment”.
Mr. Dery assured Ghanaians that the Akufo-Addo administration was committed to maintaining the peace and stability in the country.
Government, he said, will continue to ensure that Ghanaians go about their businesses in peace and stability, adding that it will also help attract investors into the country.
Greater Accra Minister
In a welcome address, the Greater Accra Regional Minister, Mr. Henry Quartey, pointed out that the passing out of recruits of the Accra CRT marked another milestone of the making Accra clean agenda.
As part of their mandate, he said, members of the CRT will assist Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in areas including enforcing sanitation bye-laws, traffic regulations among others.
According to him, the CRT was expected to generate about 3500 jobs for the teeming youth.
“The passing out ceremony gives me great joy because it is an indication that the Let’s Make Accra Clean campaign has come to stay,” he delightfully expressed.
