By James Esuon, GNA
Swedru (C/R) Oct 12, GNA- Mr Eric Gyamfi Odoom, Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Agona West, has formed a seven-member sanitation committee to prosecute residents who refused to participate in the monthly national sanitation day exercise.
The Committee is to play an oversight responsibility over the Environmental Health and Sanitation Department to ensure that the Day instituted by President John Mahama achieved its objective of clean environment.
Mr Odoom was addressing chiefs, Assembly Staff, Police Personnel and some store and shop owners after a five-hour clean-up exercise at Agona Swedru.
The Committee which has Mr Bashiru Saeed, the Municipal Finance Officer of Agona West as its chairman, has been tasked to summon all sanitation defaulters before court for prosecution.
The MCE urged the Committee to live up to expectation to sustain the national sanitation day to keep the Area clean.
Mr Odoom expressed concern of the poor participation of the exercise urged the Committee to collaborate with Environmental Health and Sanitation office to prosecute their agenda without fear or favour.
The Assembly, he stated, would ensure that the streets, gutters and the general environment of the Municipality was clean to reduce malaria, typhoid and other communicable diseases.
The MCE cautioned residents, particularly shop and store owners who failed to partake in the clean-up exercise to join the next exercise or face prosecution.
The Assembly would soon change concrete slaps in front of stores and shops into metal slaps to make it easier to clean chocked gutters, Mr Odoom added.
Mr Marc Dzordzordze, the Agona West Municipal Environmental Health and Sanitation Officer, took the opportunity to educate residents on hand washing to reduce sicknesses.
He said his Office was ready to deal with recalcitrant residents and shop owners to serve as deterrent to others.
Mr Kennedy Kum, the CEO of U’ Fresh soft drink distributor at Agona Swedru urged shop and store owners not to absent themselves during the exercise because it was instituted to ensure clean environment to reduce sicknesses and other related health risks.
Mr Kum said nobody had any excuse not to participate in the exercise because text messages were sent to Ghanaians through the mobile networks about the exercise to aid environmental cleanliness.
Nana Kweku Esieni V, the regent of Agona Swedru pledged that the Swedruman Council of Chiefs to fully back the Assembly to prosecute all defaulters to serve as deterrent to others.
Nana Esieni who is also the Nifahene of Agona Swedru expressed disappointment about the poor participation and urgeed residents to change their attitudes for the best.
GNA
Edited by Alice Tettey /Kenneth Odeng Adade