The Government of Ghana has announced a new proposed programme to involve corporate organisations in the maintenance and beautification of major streets in Accra.

The Minister for Local Government, Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Hon. Mahama Ayariga, announced the initiative at Rawlings Park in Accra on October 3, 2026 during the national flagship clean-up exercise to commemorate Ghana's World Cleanup Day 2026.

He said he had directed the National Director of Urban Roads and the Chief Executive Officer of the Land Use and Spatial Planning Authority (LUSPA) to submit a list of roads and streets in Accra to the Ministry by Monday.

Under the proposed arrangement, he explained, corporate organisations would be assigned selected streets and expected to contribute towards their cleaning, greening, lighting and general maintenance under the supervision of the relevant state institutions.

He cited the Obasanjo Highway as an illustration, explaining that an existing street name could be paired with the name of a participating corporate organisation without necessarily erasing the name of the personality after whom the road was originally named.

Hon. Ayariga said the arrangement could also create employment opportunities for young people through the Department of Parks and Gardens while helping to improve greenery, pedestrian spaces and the general appearance of the capital.

He commended residents, traders, traditional leaders and other stakeholders for participating in the National Sanitation Day exercise and said clean-up days were useful for building public consciousness, but lasting cleanliness depended on functional systems that made responsible waste disposal easy.

The Mayor of Accra, Hon. Michael Kpakpo Allotey, urged traders to treat cleanliness as an everyday responsibility rather than an activity reserved for National Sanitation Day.

Referencing the global theme, “From Clean Plates to Clean Cities,” Hon. Allotey said the principle of cleanliness should extend beyond the home to public and commercial spaces, stressing that just as people wash their plates after eating, traders have a responsibility to clean their trading areas after conducting business.

The Mayor said the objective of the Assembly was not to prevent people from trading but to create conditions in which traders could conduct their businesses in clean and healthy surroundings.

Hon. Allotey said traders should be able to sell, make profits, and take their earnings home rather than spend their income treating preventable illnesses associated with insanitary conditions

A representative of the Ga Mantse, King Tackie Teiko Tsuru II, Captain Nii Kojo Nseni Mankattah IV also called on residents and traders to take greater responsibility for maintaining cleanliness after organised clean-up exercises.

Speaking on behalf of the Ga Mantse, he expressed concern that substantial resources were committed to sanitation exercises only for some cleaned areas to become littered again within hours.