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Mr Adjei M. Sowah, the AMA Chief Executive, delivering his statement at the event
Mr Adjei M. Sowah, the AMA Chief Executive, delivering his statement at the event

Support AMA’s agenda to clean up Accra - Adjei Sowah

The Accra Metropolitan Chief Executive, Mr Mohammed Adjei Sowah, has called on residents in the metropolis to be supportive of the assembly’s agenda to clean up the city.

“While the assembly is eager to clean up the city it needs the support of residents who should also partake in it. Living in a filthy environment is not our culture and that is one thing we have to change from, to get people to understand the consequences of living in filthy surroundings,” he said.

Mr Sowah made the call at the 30th anniversary and 17th graduation ceremony of God’s Grace International School in Accra last Saturday.

He said he was convinced that city dwellers in any part of the world were interested in living in an environment that was free from filth and very clean. 

“The assembly is urging residents in Accra, therefore, to choose to live in a clean environment. If residents choose to live in a clean environment, they would be responsible citizens who would not litter the streets of Accra, leave refuse unattended to or throw refuse into drains, but would conduct themselves in a responsible manner,” he said.

Commercial vehicles

Mr Sowah urged the public not to purposefully drop litter in commercial vehicles.

He said the AMA was engaging with the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) to educate drivers and conductors on proper ways of discarding refuse left in their vehicles by passengers and was at the same time notifying commuters not to deliberately litter commercial vehicles that they boarded.

“A ‘trotro’ is not a refuse dump, for instance. People who patronise public transport systems must not dump refuse in them as conductors drop the garbage anywhere in the streets,” he said.

The AMA Chief Executive said refuse containers would be placed at bus terminals into which bus conductors and commuters alike could leave their rubbish.

Graduation

In her address, the Principal of the School, Mrs Joan Addison, suggested to educational institutions to expose schoolchildren to problem-solving skills, language proficiency and entrepreneurship.

She said she believed that giving children the capability in these disciplines would prepare them adequately to meet complexities of contemporary societies squarely. 

She said the school was re-designing its curriculum to include the aforementioned areas of study in order to prepare the children to become change agents.

“Gone are the days when all schoolchildren learned the core subjects of English, Mathematics and Science and subjects based on theory. We have to reorient education now in order to expose schoolchildren to problem-solving skills, collaborative activities, entrepreneurship and self-development,” she said.

In all, 57 junior high school (JHS) students graduated from the school with 62 pupils graduating from the Montessori.

The school’s graduation ceremony was sponsored by Green Cola, a non-alcoholic beverage production company.

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