{"id":1202133,"date":"2022-09-11T07:28:15","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T07:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/11\/thousands-walk-with-bawumia-on-national-fitness-day-photos\/"},"modified":"2022-09-11T07:28:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T07:28:15","slug":"thousands-walk-with-bawumia-on-national-fitness-day-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/11\/thousands-walk-with-bawumia-on-national-fitness-day-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands walk with Bawumia on National Fitness Day [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"391\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/National-Fitness-day-696x391.jpeg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"National Fitness day\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has called on Ghanaians to use exercise as a tool to improve efficiency and cut down on their health expenses, particularly in this austere period.<\/p>\n<p>He has also encouraged the citizenry to pay special attention to their health, by exercising regularly.<\/p>\n<p>The Vice President said this at the maiden edition of the National Keep Fit Day at the Accra Sports Stadium on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/14-2.jpg\" alt=\"Thousands walk with Bawumia on National Fitness Day\" class=\"wp-image-10032168643\" title=\"Thousands walk with Bawumia on National Fitness Day\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>The exercise is expected to take place every second Saturday of every month across the country.<br \/>Thousands of health and fitness enthusiasts including King of the Ga state, Nii Tackie Teiko Tsuru II, Sports Minister Mustapha Yusif, professional cyclists, soccer teams from some selected second cycle schools in the Greater Accra region, former world champion Azuma Nelson, and some politicians participated in the walk.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-09-10-at-1.25.48-PM-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"Thousands walk with Bawumia on National Fitness Day\" class=\"wp-image-10032168602\" title=\"Thousands walk with Bawumia on National Fitness Day\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>The fitness enthusiasts were taken through some aerobics when they converged at the Accra Sports Stadium where the dignitaries took turns to address the participants.<\/p>\n<p>The Ga Mantse in a brief remark of admiration declared that \u2018\u2019the National Fitness Day has come to stay\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Former Northern Regional Secretary of the NPP and Consultant for the Ghana Integrated Iron and Steel Development Corporation, Alhaji Haruna Abdulai, hailed the proponents and organisers of the national fitness day.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/17-1.jpg\" alt=\"Thousands walk with Bawumia on National Fitness Day\" class=\"wp-image-10032168631\" title=\"Thousands walk with Bawumia on National Fitness Day\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>\u2018\u2019Keeping fit is keeping well, and as a finance person, I know that keeping fit will reduce the health budget and that alone will bring some savings to people in terms of their health cost,\u2019\u2019 Alhaji Haruna said.<\/p>\n<p>On his part, Vice President, Mahamudu Bawumia who led and declared the National Fitness Day, also used the platform to call on the general population to use exercise as a means of not only reducing their individual medical bills but improving efficiency at their respective place of work.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2019If we are healthy in body, we are healthy in mind, and so we want to make sure that Ghana is healthy, and the national fitness day should help us build fitness and that means better productivity for us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Vice President rounded up the day by having a go at his favourite sporting discipline, table tennis.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; 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