Henry Quartey, Greater Accra Regional Minister, has given explanations for his eerie silence.
Henry Quartey, Ghana's regional minister for the capital since 2021, initiated the 'Let's Make Accra Work' initiative to assist bring discipline and sanity to the area.
Through this initiative, Mr. Quartey has demolished a lot of constructions in prohibited areas and waterways, as well as cleansed certain main streets of hawkers, among other things. He also prosecuted those who had constructed on Ramsar sites.
He also launched the campaign clean your frontage to compel Accra residents to keep their surroundings tidy.
Mr. Quartey was also successful in transferring onion dealers from Agbogbloshie to the Ga West Municipality's Adjen Kotoku Market.
Meanwhile, the Greater Accra Regional Minister has remained silent in recent months, with rumors circulating that he has abandoned the 'Let's Make Accra Work' campaign due to the overwhelming opposition he met from impacted individuals.
For the first time since his alleged self-imposed seclusion, the Greater Accra Regional Minister stated that he is charging his batteries and would return strong.
"Perhaps I didn't put much gas in the automobile, this is 2023, some people claimed I quit, some said I was slow, or I went to bed, but I am a battery, and I am charging," he remarked.
The Minister stated this during his remarks to the Advertising Association of Ghana's 8th Investiture Ceremony over the weekend.
Mr. Quartey took advantage of the opportunity to urge for a coordinated effort to expedite the approval of the advertising bill in order to reduce the indiscriminate mounting of billboards.
"Billboards are correctly done outside of this jurisdiction; it's a system; we have to walk the walk."
"The difficulty is that I need a billboard because I have to campaign and my brother [Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah] also wants a billboard, therefore we are not able to urge the Goro people to back off. Mark my words, I'm going to strike about this indiscipline with billboards very soon; we'll complete the job," Mr. Quartey remarked.