Mr Emmanuel Nyaaba, Environmental Protection Officer of the Bawku Municipality, has called on the people of Bawku and the entire nation to cultivate good attitudes towards the protection of the environment.
\nHe said the environment was the only place that could inhabit nature and that there was the need to be environmentally friendly.Mr Nyaaba noted that the cause of environmental degradation in the municipality was a result of the negative attitude by members of the community towards the environment.
\nHe indicated that bush burning, indiscriminate felling of
\ntrees, littering and disposal of waste were the major acts that degraded the environment.Mr Nyaaba made the call in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on Wednesday in Bawku to sensitize the general public on the need to protect the environment.
\nHe said sachet water producers were another threat to the
\nenvironment explaining that the companies produced the water
\nsachets without putting measures in place to prevent them from being littered around.Mr Nyaaba expressed worry about the situation and said if care was not taken it would get out of hands.
\nMr Nyaaba said the Environmental Protection Agency was being challenged with so many problems such as logistics and human resource.He lamented that the municipal office was understaffed and due to that it had not been able to meet its mandate such as monitoring and preventing bush burning in the municipality and its surroundings.
\nHe appealed to government and development partners to
\nsupport the agency with logistics to enable it to perform its
\nconstitutional role effectively.
\nAlhaji Mustapha Ayamga, Chairman of the Bawku Sachet
\nWater Producers Association, told the GNA that due to the instability of prices of raw materials, producers had not been able to make profit that would enable them to pay their levies and contribute to controlling littering in the municipality.
\nAlhaji Ayamga said due to the protracted conflict in the
\narea members of the association complained of low patronage of the water and that among other things had been an issue hindering their progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mr Emmanuel Nyaaba, Environmental Protection Officer of the Bawku Municipality, has called on the people of Bawku and the entire nation to cultivate good attitudes towards the protection of the environment. He said the environment was the only place that could inhabit nature and that there was the need to be environmentally friendly.Mr Nyaaba noted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n