He appealed to the people to rekindle the communal spirit,
which he noted had died down in recent times, to complement
government efforts at developing the country.
Mr Nyamekye Marfo was addressing the people at the
Sunyani main lorry park after visiting the various areas where
clean-up exercises were conducted in the municipality to herald
the 54th Independence Anniversary Celebration.
The regional minister appealed to the Municipal and District
Assemblies to ensure that clean up exercises were held on
monthly basis in order to make the task of ridding the
community of filth less difficult and burdensome.
Some of the groups and organisations that took part in the
hour-long exercise included the personnel of the police service,
garages association and some community members.
The rest were churches, boys scout, third infantry battalion,
PROTOA, metro mass transport, prisons service, Moslem
youth movement, Gonja youth association, immigration
service, Ghana National Fire Service, market women, GPRTU
taxi branch, Customs Exercise and Preventive Service and
some staff of the Brong – Ahafo Regional Coordinating
Council.
They desilted drains along main roads, cleared weeds and
picked polythene materials and swept the streets along certain
areas including Cocoa House, Post Office, Rex through Old
GNTC to Joe Bennett Pharmacy.
Other areas were the town centre traffic lights to hospital
traffic lights, SSNIT House through Municipal Hospital to Goil
Filling Station, Atronie station, Penkwase traffic light through
regional hospital to medical village junction.
Some personnel of Zoomlion were also on hand to
fumigate gutters and drains along streets.
The Sunyani Municipal Chief Executive Mr Kwasi
Oppong–Ababio, thanked the participants for taking part in the
exercise and appealed to them to keep up the spirit to maintain
the good reputation of the municipality.
The MCE also called for good environmental management
of the Nana Bosoma Market in Sunyani.
Nana Bosoma Asor Nkrawiri II, Chief of Sunyani, noted
that there was the need to keep proper management of the
environment to check the high incidence and outbreak of
diseases in the system and do away with unhygienic
behaviours.
He urged them to ensure safe and hygienic practices in their
homes, offices and in the markets.