This month's National Sanitation Day (NSD) clean-up exercise, was observed in the Cape Coast Metropolis, but only a few residents in some communities participated.
The exercise, the fifth since its institution by the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development last year, comes just a day after Ghana's 58th Independence Celebration.
The Ghana News Agency (GNA) observed that whilst some residents gathered in groups in the communities to embark on the exercise, others, especially shop owners, waited for the exercise to end so that they could open their shops.
Some major streets were closed, whilst commercial vehicular movements were restricted till the end of the exercise.
In an interview with the GNA, Mr. Jerky Lawrence, the assembly member for Abura-Asim -Nkwantado, a suburb of the metropolis, appealed to the Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly to increase the tools allocated to each community, since those given were woefully inadequate.
He said the community was given 10 brooms and one wheelbarrow, and that, he had to bring in more spades and wheelbarrows to facilitate a smooth exercise.
