By Opesika Tetteh Puplampu
Sege, March 17, GNA – The Environmental Health Department, Ada West District Assembly, has relocated a community refuse skip from the Sege Presbyterian Primary School compound.
This follows a publication on the health dangers the presence of the refuse container poses to the school community and the threats from teachers to vacate the school if no action was taken.
The teachers at Sege Community Junior High School, Nos. 1 and 2, and the Sege Presbyterian Primary School raised issues of health risks associated with having the community dump their refuse in the container on the school compound, such as cholera outbreaks.
When the Ghana News Agency (GNA) made a follow-up visit to the school, the community refuse skip had been relocated; however, some residents continue to dump refuse on the school compound.
Mr. Emmanuel Sabbah, Headmaster of Sege Presby No. 2, revealed that multiple appeals were made to authorities, as well as the assemblyman, but no immediate action was taken until the GNA publication, which shed light on their predicament.
Mr. Ernest Dugbanor Kugblenu, the assembly member for the area, who had blamed the previous administration of the Ada West District Assembly for the inaction after several reports, said apart from relocating the container, a signpost had been erected at the former location to deter residents from dumping refuse there.
Despite the intervention, the headmaster of the school reported that some residents still dispose of waste at the site, stressing the need for intensified public education to change behaviours and prevent further indiscriminate dumping.
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