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The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) Sanitation Court has remanded seven individuals into prison custody for engaging in open defecation in parts of Accra after they failed to pay a fine of 50 penalty units, equivalent to GH¢600.
The convicts are Samuel Aryeequaye, Evans Derry, Kwesi Milla, Richard Quintin Coffie, Seidu Aminu, Awuaaba Michael and Quarcoo Ernest.
An eighth offender, Raphael Adjetey, who was also convicted for the same offence, paid the fine imposed by the court.
Speaking after the proceedings, the Head of Public Affairs at the AMA, Gilbert Nii Ankrah, said the offenders were arrested during a night-time operation carried out by Environmental Health Officers under the leadership of Florence Kuukyi, Head of the Environmental Health Department.
The arrests were made in Bubuashie, Jamestown and Chorkor as the Assembly intensified enforcement of sanitation regulations across the metropolis.
According to the AMA, the Environmental Health Department has rolled out 24-hour operations to ensure strict compliance with sanitation by-laws. Officials say day-and-night monitoring will continue to curb public nuisance and safeguard public health in the capital.
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