National Sanitation Taskforce Inaugurated at La Dadekotopong

Accra, Oct. 21, GNA - The National Sanitation Taskforce in partnership with Zoom Alliance and La Dadekotopong Municipal Assembly, has inaugurated a 50-member sanitation taskforce to help clean the environment and educate residents on the need to keep clean surroundings.    The inauguration of the taskforce is under the president’s special initiative of keeping the environment clean for a better Ghana.     Inaugurating the taskforce, Mr Daniel Amatey Mensah, Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of Ledzokuku-Krowor, entreated the team to exercise patience with residents in the course of creating awareness and educating them on the exercise.     Mr Amatey Mensah added that bins would be provided to residents while others would be placed at vantage points in the communities to ensure that residents do not litter around.    Explaining the work of the taskforce, the MCE said “The team will take charge of critical areas in the communities. Also, the exercise will continue for the next three months on daily basis. But, during every weekend, residents will be called upon to join the team for a massive cleanup exercise”.    “The team will take two days within each week to educate residents on the need to keep their environs clean and where they could find the bins,” he said.    Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture, Nii Amasah Namoale, who participated in the initial cleanup exercise, asked the residents to make conscious effort in keeping the environment clean.    He said “When the exercise goes on well for the next three months, we will call on the partners, including the sector minister to extend the duration as well as add more human resource and tools”.    The Minister further advised residents to stop throwing human excreta into gutters for a healthy life.   Commenting on the inauguration, Senior Public Affairs Manager at Zoom Alliance, Jacob Mingle, stated that the Alliance would continue to provide both the human resource and tools needed to keep the country clean.   Mr Mingle said: “We will continue to partner all sanitation organisations in the country to clean every corner of this country. Also the taskforce members will be stationed around distributed bins to ensure residents make good use of it.”        The Coordinator of the Assembly taskforce, Abraham Oko Kotey, said the body in the course of exercising their duties, would also educate residents why they need to use the bins for a healthy life.   GNA... Read Full Story