Management of the Tamale Metro Assembly organized a clean up exercise as part activities to help improve the sanitation situation in the city of Tamale and its environs. The exercise followed the launch of the sanitation day campaign by the Northern Regional Minister, Hon Alhaji Shani Shaibu Alhassan in which every last Saturday of the month was declared a sanitation day, starting from the 29th of May, 2021. Public places around the central business district of Tamale were targeted for this event. Adressing the media in the course of the exercise, Hon. Alhaji Saani Shaibu Alhassan admonished the city authorities, the Chiefs, assembly members religious leader and indeed the general public to be conscious of environmental cleanliness. On his part, the Tamale metro Coordinating Director, Mr Gilbert B Nuuri-Teg expressed gratitude to the Hon. Regional Minister for the sanitation day initiative. He appealed to the key stakeholders to take the exercise seriously.