The closure of a four-room chamber serving as a urinal for traders, passengers and drivers at the Sekondi Lorry station has made it difficult to ensure environmental sanity amid this COVID-19 pandemic.

The situation has resulted in indiscriminate urination among users of the lorry park, particularly with traders openly seen urinating in containers and spreading the content in gutters and sometimes on the ground.

A visit by the Ghana News Agency on Tuesday morning to the lorry park, a day which happened to be a market day in Sekondi, revealed the urgency and the need for the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA) to act quickly to avert any viral spread, contamination and diseases.

Though the urinal was in good shape during the visit, it was unclear why officials from the Assembly would lock up such an important facility.

Some traders and drivers the GNA spoke to, expressed dissatisfaction at the Assembly's decision to lock up the place without any engagement or consultation with users of the facility.

A trader retorted, "You don't know how these Assembly people take us for granted, this place really helps us to have easy access to ease ourselves, but now we have to do merry go round or have a container to do it in. How about customers and other users?" she queried.

She further described the action as a bad move on the part of the Assembly.

A Taxi Driver also lamented about the current indiscriminate spread of urine around and how the foul smell had engulfed the whole area due to the closure of the urinal.

Users are, therefore, pleading with the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Chief Executive, Mr. Anthony K. K. Sam to as a matter of priority intervene in the situation to save passengers, traders and drivers, among other users from the ordeal.

Efforts to get in touch with the MCE for his side of the story proved futile.