Registration of “Borla Taxis” in Accra begins July 4

By S.O. Dodoo, GNA

Accra, June 27, GNA – The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has announced that it would begin registering all operators of private tricycle waste collectors popularly called “Borla Taxis” or “Aboboyaa” from Wednesday, July 4 to Tuesday, July 31, 2018.

The registration days, which exclude; Sundays would be done at various dump sites, waste transfer stations, AMA Waste Management Department at Kaneshie and other designated locations in the city.

This was announced in a statement signed by Gilbert Nii Ankrah, the Head of the Public Affairs of the AMA and copied to the Ghana News Agency on Wednesday.

The exercise forms part of efforts by the AMA to bring sanity into the operations of the private tricycle waste collectors and to also identify all the service providers in the waste management value chain, coordinate, monitor and control their activities in pursuit of the “Clean Accra Project.”

It said it was further to aid in engagement with the operators to enhance their capacity in health and safety, environmental management and business development.

The statement said the registration was “free and mandatory” and any tricycle operating within the AMA’s jurisdiction from August, 2018 without the AMA embossment would be arrested and prosecuted.

“We assure the general public that adequate steps are being taken to achieve the clean Accra goal and that AMA will not hesitate to prosecute people whose actions draw us back in accordance with the law,” it said.

The statement called on all adjoining municipalities and district assemblies to register “Borla Taxi” operators within their areas to support the realisation of the project goals.

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