‘Assemblies, health units must work together’
The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Offinso, Baafuor Kese-Amankwa, has challenged assembly members to work with the Environmental Health Unit to sensitise the community to adopt wholesome personal and communal hygiene practices.
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He also advised them to embark on public education on the need for the people to avoid littering the streets, gutters and compounds, especially with water sachet.
The MCE, who said this during the Offinso Municipal Assembly meeting at Offinso, observed that of late, heaps of refuse continued to mount in the communities and that posed a health hazard to the people.
He said that the assembly was, therefore, embarking on a major clean-up exercise to clean the filth in the municipality and that with the assistance of Zoomlion Ghana Limited, all refuse heaps in the municipality would be evacuated by the end of December 2013.
According to the MCE, refuse containers would be placed at specific locations for the community cleansing exercise to be sustained.
He advised the assembly to undertake weekly or monthly communal clean-up exercises and that schoolchildren should be introduced to a two-hour communal cleaning exercise every Saturday, where possible.
He also announced that the Ashawo Road, other link and feeder roads that had become unmotorable in the municipality would be reshaped and new roads constructed as a way of developing the suburbs.
Baafuor Kese-Amankwa also disclosed that the reconstruction of the Amoadan drain from Agric Junction to Kokote Market would start before the end of the year.
The project, he indicated, would be funded with the assembly’s share of the 2011 Urban Development Grant (UDG).
