Graphic, Zoomlion clean up Gbese tomorrow
The Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL) with support from the Jospong Group will undertake its first clean-up exercise at Gbese in Accra tomorrow.
The exercise, which also has support from the Gbese Traditional Council, forms part of the GCGL's National Sanitation Campaign, launched last month.
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Scheduled to start at 6a.m., the exercise is part of efforts by the GCGL to promote a clean environment and draw attention to the worsening sanitation conditions in the country.
Shared responsibility
The Director, Marketing of the GCGL, Mr Franklin Sowa, said the exercise was aimed at reminding people of the shared responsibility of keeping their communities clean.
“ Keeping a cleaner environment is the way forward for better health for our people. Having a healthy environment is also a core of what we do as a business, the reason we are championing this campaign.
“Maintaining a clean, healthy environment is a shared responsibility and not solely that of the government or the assembly. After all, we generate the waste and the duty bearers only lead in the management of the waste.
“However, even in the waste generation, we owe it a duty to ourselves, the community we live in and the country as a whole to manage our waste properly at those levels before the duty bearers play their role,” he emphasised.
Cleanest region competition
Mr Sowa said the exercise would be held around the country at designated times. Ultimately, the cleanest city and region will be selected in a special competition.
He said it was commendable that the Greater Accra Regional Minister, Mr Henry Quartey, had also placed sanitation at the heart of his ‘Make Accra Work’ project, saying for Graphic, it was a nationwide clarion call for the sanitation campaign.
“We are hopeful that each region will also focus on making their region the cleanest and thereby be in contention for the Cleanest city/ region competition, for which the winners will be chosen by technical assessment as well as public voting.
“ In deciding which region or city wins the ultimate prize for the cleanest city/region, there will be 60 per cent technical assessment and 40 per cent of scores to go through public voting. The highest scores win the prestigious prize,” Mr Sowa intimated. He expressed the hope that it would encourage people to put in their best efforts to win the title for their city or region.
Keep Ghana Clean
The GCGL and its partners, Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL), the Environmental Service Providers Association (ESPA) and the Sanitation and Water Resources Ministry have declared 2021 the “Year of Sanitation”, with the focus on efforts to whip up the citizenry’s interest in healthy sanitation practices.
The sanitation campaign is on the theme: “Keep Ghana Clean”.
It is also intended to support President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s ambitious target to make Accra and Ghana the cleanest city and country in Africa by the end of his second term.
