Hiawu Besease (Ash)
Jan 8, GNA – The people of Hiawu Besease in the Atwima Nwabiagya South
Municipality marked this year’s Constitution Day with sanitation activities to
keep the town clean as inhabitants swarmed onto streets, desilting gutters and
clearing bushes.
The exercise was
supported by three local non-governmental organizations – Campaign to Promote
Civic Education (CPCE), Eco Warriors Movement (EWM) and Green stewardship
International (GSI).
The organisations
provided sanitation equipment, including rakes, wheel barrows, gloves,
pickaxes, head pans, cutlasses, spraying machines, dustbins, weedicides, nose
masks, shovels, and spades among others.
These items,
estimated to cost about GH¢300,000.00, were supplied free of charge for the
conduct of the exercise aimed at promoting environmental cleanliness and
instilling communal spirit among the residents.
The sponsors
together with Mr. Emmanuel Agyei Anhwere, the Member of Parliament (MP) for the
area, who donated five pairs of Wellington boots and the community members in
the early hours of Tuesday, swooped to the streets to sweep, clear gutters and
tied up the clinic and market places.
Addressing the
gathering later, Mr Otuo Acheampong, the President of Eco Warriors, challenged
Ghanaians to inculcate the habit of cleaning their surroundings as a personal
responsibility to ensure cleanliness at all times.
He called on
community members to engage in communal labour as a good sanitation and
development tool, which he said would “spark a restoration action” in the youth
through awareness creation, advocacy and action-led approach.
He was of the view
that a youth-driven project would restore degraded landscape and mitigate
climate change by an integrated and inclusive approach.
“This would help
create the awareness of the state of the environment to trigger the innate
desire of humanity to restore, preserve and conserve nature for posterity,” he
said.
He advised that
people should not wait on their district assemblies to contract sweepers to
clean their communities, stressing: “It is your civic responsibility to keep
this community clean”.
GNA
