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The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) observed the National Sanitation Day (NSD) at the Central Business District. The Metropolitan Cordinating Director, KMA staff, security personnel from the Ghana Police Service, the military, Ghana National Fire service and Ghana Prison Services, and some fun clubs. Participants desilted choked gutters, cleared lorry parks at Dr Mensah of rubbish and swept the central market and its surroundings. Turn -out was however far from impressive. From Dr Mensah to kejetia and Adum, residents and market women were busily doing their businesses without regard to the clean-up exercise that was going on. Some shop owners who closed their shops were sitting idle waiting for those who were cleaning to finish so that they can open their shops to do business. The Metropolitan Cordinating Director Mr Michael Attao-Gye commended the participants especially personnel from the security services for coming out in their numbers to support such an important national exercise. He stressed the need to do intensify education to whip up interest of residents and also enforce the sanitation bye- laws to ensure strict compliance and participation. He expressed the need to engage sanitation workers locally known as Tankaasi to help enforce sanitation bye laws in order to improve the sanitation situation in the metropolis. Touching on cleanliness, the Cordinating Director stated the need to always keep the environment clean to prevent outbreak of disease saying, " lets not litter the environment so that there will be no need to clean". The national sanitation day was instituted on 1st November 2014 by local government ministry after an out-break of cholera in Accra and other parts of the country.