xThe Monrovia City Police, in conjunction with the Liberia National Police, has embarked on a robust joint cleanup and demolition of makeshift structures in Monrovia.
The MCC says the exercise is targeting major streets of the Capital, including Randall, Benson, Waterside, and Ashmun Streets, amongst others, and it is expected to take place contemporaneously within the city limit of Monrovia.
“Street vendors have also been decisively removed as part of the ongoing exercise,” the MCC said in a press release.
According to the MCC, the collaborative project with the Liberia National Police (LNP) aims at decongesting traffic in Monrovia and giving the city a facelift, values being upheld at all times by the City Government.
The demolition and clearing operation, is in consonance with Objective 5 of the national ARREST manifesto, which focuses on sanitation, stating that the City Government shall enforce the city ordinance on the removal of makeshift structures and stalls that hinder pedestrian and vehicular movements along major streets; and ensure that property owners comply with requirements of cleaning and painting their properties along major streets.
Objective 5 of the ARREST framework is also in line with the city ordinance that authorizes the City Government of Monrovia to enforce the removal of all lamentable signboards, billboards, and broken-down vehicles from the sidewalks.
“The ARREST policy also provides for the enforcement of city ordinance on street selling/hawking and ensure that marketers sell their products only at designated sites,” the release said.
The MCC-LNP cleanup initiative will be more vigorous in the coming days in its approach to have a clean, green, and safe environment.
The City Government has assured the public that it would be as consistent as possible with its mandate to discourage street selling, which undercuts the beautification of the city and creates unnecessary traffic congestion.
