Otumfuo, Mahama join clean-up exercise (Photos)

The maiden edition of the National Sanitation Day marked last Saturday received an encouraging response from a cross section of society throughout the country, particularly in the national capital, Accra, and the regional capitals.

However, in some of the suburbs, there was clear apathy as some residents went about their activities, oblivious of the exercise while some claimed that they were unaware that a day had been designated for a national clean up.

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Notable among eminent personalities who participated in the clean-up exercise were President John Dramani Mahama, who joined the people of Sogakope in the Volta Region for the exercise, and the Vice-President, Mr Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur, who helped to clean the Kanda Estate Cluster of Schools and urged joined participants at Nima and Mamobi for the exercise.

In Kumasi, the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, symbolically signalled the start of the exercise at Adum and commended those who responded to the call to help keep the city clean.

Others who joined in the clean-up exercise were political leaders, chiefs, opinion leaders, students, sanitation workers and members of the general public.

Below are images from the scene

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