Koforidua, July 25, GNA - Traders near the Central Mosque in Koforidua= , had made a passionate appeal to the New Juaben Municipal Assembly to tackle the sanitary condition in the area, which is not conducive for business. According to the traders the assembly had neglected their responsibilities of ensuring that the area was clean, yet they paid their rental fees of the shops, artisan fees and other income taxes to the assembly every month.

The traders, who made the appeal through the Ghana News Agency on Monday, said the staircase and the entrance to the building had become the dumping site for all sorts of rubbish, whiles others had turned it into their toilet and wash rooms.

The two-storey building from which these traders operate their businesses had been rented to different people for various purposes, such a= s dressmaking shops, salons, boutiques and many others, yet the place has no place of convenience. The traders said the conditions at the assembly's shops were so bad, and that, even thought the building has Water Closet toilets, there was no water flowing in it. They said those who find it difficult to use the facility had to resor= t to the use of plastic containers for urinating and emptying it on the streets or available gutters.

The traders indicated that apart from the filth and the stench, their security was at stake since miscreants and sometimes mentally deranged persons used the available spaces as their hideouts and homes. The traders said several attempts to get the assembly to rectify the situation had fallen on deaf ears and hope that through the media their appeal would be heard.