By Evans Worlanyo Ameamu, GNA
 Keta (VR), Dec 4, GNA – The Keta Municipal Assembly in the Volta Region has launched a new waste segregation initiative dubbed “Sanitation Friday” aimed at promoting a cleaner and healthier environment in the municipality. Â
The launch held at the premises of the Municipal hall and was also to promote and improve better sanitation issues as well as protect the environment to drive away related communicable diseases.
Mr Wisdom Seade, the Keta Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, encouraged various coordinators and school representatives to fully support the initiative to serve as one of the most important ways in maintaining a clean environment.
“The National Sanitation Day, instituted by President John Dramani Mahama, makes it a responsibility for everyone to keep their communities clean, it is candid reminder to all of us to help keep the environment clean,” he said.
He charged teachers of various beneficiary schools to create the awareness and educate students and parents about the importance of good environment to participate in Sanitation Day activities.
He explained that a benevolent sanitation promoting organisation has donated 81 litter bins, which was distributed to schools to support waste segregation and promote proper waste management practices.
“This programme involves all basic schools and senior high schools within the Keta Municipal Ghana Education Service, and l am calling upon all well-meaning citizens to support our effort to make sure that our environment is clean, since cleanliness is next to Godliness.”
Mr Seade stated that all necessary actions were in place to maintain good environmental hygiene and urged the residents within the municipality to avoid littering the environment which could result in various forms of diseases outbreak which would threaten many lives in the area.
Mr Derrick Ashia Logo, Director of Environmental Protection Authority (EPA), charged the public to embrace the sanitation promotion plans to help protect and keep healthy living.
He said that proper use of the distributed waste bin would contribute to eradication of about 32 million plastic waste from the environment every 10 months which could also be recycled into other renewable resources to promote and boost the economy.
He said that the law prohibited burning of plastic products and urged that all plastic waste should be deposited into the dust bin or kept under good hygienic condition for renewable companies to use in producing other important products to make life easier for all.
Mr Noble Dela Segbedor, a teacher from Hatorgodo basic school and other participating staff and students, who GNA interacted with expressed excitement about the initiative and pledged to become ambassadors of “Sanitation Friday” to ensure its success.
They praised the initiative which was a collaborative effort between the Keta Municipal Assembly, EPA, and Waste Bins to always help keep the environment clean to protect human and other habitants.
They said the “Sanitation Friday” programme was expected to contribute significantly to maintaining a clean and healthy environment in the Keta municipality and pledged that the waste distributed litter bins would be use for the intended purposes for the success of the project.
GNA
Edited by: Maxwell Awumah/Christian Akorlie