Sanitation Minister Threatens To Close Down Old Fadama Abattoir

Sanitation Minister, Cecilia Abena Dapaah, has threatened to close down the popular abattoir at Old Fadama in Accra, after a surprise visit to the place revealed that it was operating in a state of extreme lack of hygiene.

Swarms of flies feasting on rotten waste from the abattoir greeted the Minister and her team when she visited the area.

Butchers and food hawkers, who comfortably did business in that extremely filthy environment scrambled for brooms and started sweeping when they saw the Minister approach, but their on-the-spur-of-the moment acts of the hygiene did not fool the Minister.

An angry Cecilia Abena Dapaah ordered the operators of the Abattoir to a parade before giving them a dressing down over what she said was filthy meat that they were poisoning the public and themselves with.

The Sanitation Minister also expressed anger over the fact that the butchers roasted their slaughter with burning car tires; a thing that she said was very cancerous.

Madam Abena Dapaah threatened to close down the abattoir but the operators pleaded with her not to close down their source of livelihood, promising to reform their operations and hygiene practices. 

The Minister heeded their pleas but warned that the next time she visited the place and found it in a similar state, would be the last time the butchers would work there.

She also scolded the Sanitation Officer for the Ablekuma Central district Assembly over the unhygienic state of affairs at the abattoir and ordered that a new regime of daily cleaning be instituted there under the supervision of the Sanitation Office.

As part of a tour of the area, the Sanitation Minister had visited the Malam and Kaneshie markets, the Odorkor Lorry Station, and some beaches.