Chief of Doromo near Wa in the Upper West Region, Naa Abudu Alhassan
Related Stories
The Chief of Doromo, a community near Wa in the Upper West Region, Naa Abudu Alhassan has called for the meting out of stiff punishment to people who break environmental sanitation bye-laws to serve as a deterrent to all others who show utter disregard for the environment through their objectionable behaviours and practices.
Naa Abudu Alhassan was speaking during an environmental sanitation durbar organized by Zoomlion Ghana Limited in the Doromo community to sensitize the people on the need to change from practices that negatively affects serenity of the environment to enable the people enjoy good health and sound living.
He said people who abuse the environment must be severely dealt with by the District assemblies to serve as a warning to others.
The event, which brought all activities in the Doromo community to a standstill all afternoon, was attended by a large crowd made up of traditional authorities, women, children, assemblymen and officials of the Regional Environmental Health Directorate.
The chief commended Zoomlion for helping keep the Doromo township and its environs clean and appealed to the company to find a way of setting up a small recycling plant in the region so as to help the plastic waste menace Ghanaian communities face.
A crossection of the public at the durbar organized by Zoomlion in Doromo near Wa.
The Upper West Regional Environmental Health Officer in his address said environmental sanitation issues are not the responsibilities of women only but a shared one.
He also used the opportunity to appeal to the residents of Doromo to desist from littering the streets and dumping refuse into water bodies as these practices tend to negatively affect the community and its people through the outbreak of diseases.
Mr. Solomon Agyemang Duah, a Communications Officer for Zoomlion reiterated Zoomlion’s commitment in helping fight the waste menace in the country hence the effort to bring sanitation messages to grassroots to help make Ghana a clean nation.
He appealed to the children and the public in general to be peer educators in the fight against filth.
Disclaimer: Opinions expressed here are those of the writers and do not reflect those of Peacefmonline.com. Peacefmonline.com accepts no responsibility legal or otherwise for their accuracy of content. Please report any inappropriate content to us, and we will evaluate it as a matter of priority.
