By Jerry Azanduna, GNA
Bawku (UE) Dec. 14, GNA – Hajia Hawa Nincheama,
Bawku Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) has urged members of the Bawku Youth
Parliament to continue advocating good sanitation as key to personal
development in the Bawku area and its surrounding communities to improve
personal hygiene.
She said the youth was a driving force for
national development and championing the course for good sanitation through programmes
by the youth parliament would drum home good messages to the people.
Hajia Nincheamah made the call during the
inaugural ceremony of the first Bawku
youth parliament, an imitation of the National Parliament to discuss
youthful development issues at their level in the Bawku area at Bawku in the
Upper East Region, with a rolling debate motioned “The state of sanitation in
Bawku”.
She explained that focusing on promoting
healthy and clean environment was next to Godliness as directed in the Holy
Scriptures.
The MCE reminded the Youth of their role in
nation building and that they should continue to be proactive to protect the
environment and its inhabitants.
Mr Joseph Bawa Mahama the Bawku Municipal
Director of Environmental Health and Sanitation who touched on the debate
motion explained that sickness could come out of poverty and that could as a
result of poor environment generating from poor sanitation conditions in the
area. He bemoaned indiscriminate littering of the environment and charged the youth
to be ambassadors of eliminating it.
Mr Seidu Atiraah Issah, Speaker for the
Bawku Youth Parliament described the role of Ghanaian youth towards democratic
governance and national development as paramount and they were committed to
contributing their quota.
Mr Issah mentioned that the inauguration of
the youth parliament would provide opportunities for critical and relevant
questions with regards to youth sensitisation and participation in national
governance and politics.
He explained that Ghana had approximately 57
per cent of its population under age 25 and the youth must be seen at the heart
and centre of national policies and programmes.
“The
Ghanaian youth has become vulnerable due to its inability to explore the
available opportunities and to have their voice in national matters that bother
on their very existence.
“The
youth in Ghana have become catalyst for political vandalism and violence. The
youth have become weapons of destruction in the hands of self-centered greedy
politicians”. He noted
Mr Issah underscored the need for them out
of political exploitations and casualties of economic struggle.
He called for their participation in the
governance structure of
the country adding that the youth, failed to appreciate civic duties and
rights under the 1992 constitution and modern day political dispensations due to these factors.
He explained that the attitude of some youth
in governance and law have rendered them as instruments of exploitation by
rogue elements who used them.
GNA
