Ablekuma North Municipal Coordinating Director urges residents to change attitude
Ablekuma North MCD urges residents to change attitude towards environment
The Ablekuma North Municipal Coordinating Director (MCD), Vera Akuffo-Mante, has urged residents to stop dumping refuse in drains and by roadsides, citing the risk of flooding in communities.
She emphasised that apart from such actions being criminal, it also had a negative impact on a clean and healthy environment as it was a causative factor in the outbreak of diseases as well as flooding.
She therefore, advocated a change in attitude towards environmental protection.
April clean-up exercise
Mrs Akuffo-Mante said this when she and the Municipal Environmental Health Officer, Ruby Banini, led staff of the assembly and residents of the municipality in a clean-up exercise as part of efforts to prevent flooding during the rainfall and ensure a clean environment.
The exercise took place last Saturday in some selected electoral areas, including Odorkor, Busia Junction, Darkuman West, Nyamekye, Darkuman East, Awoshie, Been to, Kwashibu, Kwashiman, Akweibu, Tweneboa and Sakaman.
Take responsibility
Addressing the people after the exercise, Mrs Akuffo-Mante commended them for their high level of participation and urged them to always keep their environment clean and desist from indiscriminate disposal of refuse.
The MCD stressed the need for the citizenry to take responsibility for sanitation and waste management to ensure cleaner communities.
She said it was unacceptable that people still dump their waste in the open when it rained, thinking that the water will sweep the waste away.
“Unfortunately, while we think we are solving our waste problem by dumping it in the rain, we are actually creating worse problems because the waste end up blocking other outlets and then create flooding. We need to do better,” she stressed.
Mrs Akuffo-Mante further encouraged members of the community to have the courage to confront those who engage in that illegal action and also report them to the authorities, saying: “We must be citizens’ vigilantes and report people who dispose of refuse illegally.”
