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There was drama at the Central Market in Kumasi, last Saturday as the Kumasi Mayor, Kojo Bonsu, flared up following serious apathy that dogged the National Sanitation Day.

According to Luv FM’s Erastus Asare Donkor, the sanitation day begun at the Kumasi Central Market with traders showing little interest.

The traders were sitting and watching, whilst the Mayor and the Regional Minister, were busy clearing the gutters just in front of the market.

There was a preacher man busy propagating the gospel to the traders in the midst of the cleaning up exercise.

The idleness of the traders angered the two officials with the Mayor later taking over the megaphone from the pastor.

“Cleanliness is next to godliness,” he told the traders.

The Ashanti Regional Minister, Peter Anaafi Mensah, who was also angered by the filthy conditions under which food is being sold at the market, issued a stern warning to the traders that they would be prosecuted, if they were to sell under such conditions.

In Accra, military men, had to block parts of the main Teshie Nungua road, and ordered vehicles not to return until after 12:00 noon.

The military men, told occupants of the vehicles-both private and commercial- to go and take part in cleaning their neighborhoods.

Not much was seen by residents in Teshie, as far as the National Sanitation Day was concerned.

Some people took part in the cleaning exercise at Osu and other parts of the capital.