By James Esuon
Nsaba (C/R), May 7, GNA – Mr Samuel Oscar Mensah, the Agona East District Chief Executive (DCE) has advised residents to continually keep their surroundings tidy to avert cholera outbreak and other communicable diseases in and around the district.
According to the DCE, environmental health and sanitation issues bothered on collective responsibility of the citizenry, but sadly, some residents deliberately dump refuse into gutters, unauthorised places.
Mr Mensah was addressing residents of Agona Nsaba after a four- hour clean-up exercise organised by the Agona East District Assembly to rid the town of filth.
The DCE said over the years, successive governments had to pay millions of Cedis to waste management Companies to collect wastes due to unacceptable attitudes of some people.
That colossal amount annually spent on waste collection by the government could have been channelled into infrastructural and human development.
He said the government under President Mahama as part of the reset agenda on sanitation management, have put measures in place to ensure that MMDAs received adequate resources to undertake cleanup exercises.
The DCE pledged that the Assembly would strictly comply with the Local Government Minister’s directive to all MMDAs to conduct monthly cleanup exercises in their respective Assemblies to ensure environmental cleanliness.
He appealed to traditional rulers in the district to support Assembly and Unit committee members in their various localities to undertake regular clean-up exercises to tidy their environs.
He cautioned the residents to be mindful of unclean surroundings which posed great threats to the environment.
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