The North Tongu District Assembly has started upgrading the Juapong market to a modern standard by providing toilets and sheds to help promote hygiene among the traders.
Addressing the media after cutting the sod for work to begin on a 12 Unit modern water closet toilet facility, the District Chief Executive, Mr. Richard Collins Aku, said the old toilet has outlived its usefulness, especially in this period of Covid-19
According to Mr. Aku, the new toilet facility will have a mechanised borehole to ensure regular flow of water.
It will also have hand washing facilities to prevent the people from contracting covid-19 and other diseases.
The North Tongu DCE stressed that his outfit had put measures in place to help the government achieve her aims of protecting lives, as well as enhancing the socioeconomic activities of the people during and after the coronavirus pandemic.
Mr. Aku disclosed that the Assembly is currently constructing additional 70 market sheds in the Juapong market with a multipurpose warehouse to help address the challenges business men and women go through during market days in keeping their goods in safe places.
He also promised to pave the market with concrete tiles as well as fencing it.
According to the DCE, the Assembly is focused on delivering on the mandate of the government to totally transform the lives of the people and urged them to support the assembly.
DCE Aku asked the people in the area to adhere to the existing government protocols on covid-19 to help protect them against contracting the disease adding that regular washing of hands with soap, wearing of facemasks and the regular use of hand sanitizers must be obeyed.
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