President John Dramani Mahama on Saturday returned to Alajo, one of the areas hardest hit by the June 29 floods, for day two of the National General Clean-Up Exercise, with a directive that all waste scooped from drains must be immediately trucked to dump sites. The President, who was at the same venue on Friday, said the focus today was on clearing garbage left by the roadside after drains were desilted on day one. "We Cannot Leave The Garbage By The Roadside" Addressing residents and volunteers at Alajo, President Mahama said past clean-ups failed because waste was not evacuated on time. Yesterday one of the directives I gave was that In the past, we do this clean ups, we take all the garbage out of the gutters, but we don't follow up and come and collect the garbage that is by the roadside. And so when the rain falls, all is washed back into the drains,” the President said. "And so today we're going to concentrate on scooping all that garbage. We took out of ...