Sabon Zongo residents participate in sanitation exercise through intervention of soldiers, Bolga assembly
Military personnel on a peace-keeping mission in the Bolgatanga municipality last Saturday had to intervene to get residents of the Sabon Zongo community to come out for this month’s sanitation day exercise.
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When the military personnel with staff of the Bolgatanga Municipal Assembly and Zoomlion, as well as the New Generation keep fit club arrived to support the clean-up exercise at 7.30 a.m., members of the community were still indoors.
The military personnel, together with the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Mr Philip Adongo Aboore, went from door to door to get residents out and also erected a barrier around the entry points to the community to get cyclists, motorists as well as pedestrians to stop and join in the exercise.
Keep clean
After the exercise, the MCE donated 25 waste bins to the Regional Chief Imam, Alhaji Yussif Adam, to be distributed to the Zongo chiefs.
He appealed to the Council of Zongo Chiefs, as well as religious leaders to persuade their people to cultivate the habit of keeping their environment clean and desist from open defecation.
He said the assembly, in collaboration with the security, would soon embark on an operation to arrest and prosecute those involved in open defecation.
" We need your support in this direction, try and let the information get to the people to stop this open defecation for you will be the very people they will run to when they are arrested," Mr Aboore said.
He also encouraged them to provide toilets in their homes and indicated that henceforth the assembly would not approve of any building permit that did not make provision for a toilet facility.
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He said the assembly had plans of providing access roads in the Zongo community but their main problem was encroachment with building extensions and pleaded with them to support the assembly to demolish all unauthorised structures on the proposed road.
Cemetery challenges
The Secretary to the Zongo Council of Chiefs and the Chief of the Wala communities in the Bolgatanga municipality, Alhaji Mohammed Siita, pledged to support the assembly in its development efforts.
He said the Muslim and Zongo communities needed a place to bury their deceased relatives as their cemetery was full.
He said a committee had been set up involving all the Muslim sects in the municipality to find an alternative burial place for deceased Muslims and they would be meeting the municipal assembly for the necessary support.