By Lawrencia Akoto Frempong
Kpone, March 01, GNA – The Kpone-Katamanso Metropolitan Assembly (KKMA) has joined the Greater Accra Regional Coordinating Council (GARCC), to embark on the 24-hour sanitation exercise at Gbetsile, to keep the community clean.
Drivers, traders, chiefs, assembly members, and metropolitan assembly staff participated in the exercise.
Mr George Freeman, the Metropolitan Environmental Health Director, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that the exercise was a directive from the GARCC, to clean the communities on the last day of every month.
He said sanitation, which was a collective responsibility, kept the communities clean and free from the outbreaks of diseases and pests.
Mr Freeman therefore appreciated the community for participating in the exercise and urged them to continue keeping their surroundings clean to avoid any outbreak of communicable diseases.
Nii Teye Kojo Amankwa Suni I, the Chief of the Gbetsile Traditional Area, appreciated the President and the GARCC, for reinitiating the sanitation day exercise, noting that the exercise was previously observed on last day of every month, and that the initiative would help keep the communities clean.
He said he was hopeful that the exercise would continue to help eliminate certain communicable diseases and outbreaks such as cholera, malaria among others, in the country.
“If our various communities are unkempt, it introduces a lot of deadly diseases and outbreaks as well as mosquitoes and rodents,” the Chief admitted.
He called on the assembly to intensify information and education on the exercise to get more people to participate in the subsequent ones.
Nii Suni urged the community to give their maximum support to the government and the assembly by participating in the exercise, to keep the communities clean.
Mr Rahim Yaya, the Assembly Member for the Gbetsile electoral area, said the exercise was a good initiative and a step in the right direction and that the assembly members had taken it upon themselves to ensure that their communities and electoral areas get involved.
He added that such exercises were part of the duties and responsibilities of an assembly member, and they would continue with it in their various areas at least twice every month.
He further called for more participation and involvement from the community members and leaders of the various religious groups in the area.
GNA