Organisations support sanitation day exercise

The National Sanitation Day is receiving support from a number of  organisations, which are pledging their commitment to make the exercise a success.

They include the SIC Life Company Ltd, Ministry of Defence, Kasapreko Company Ltd, Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) and the Ghana Education Service.

The monthly exercise,  spearheaded by Municipal, Metropolitan and District Assemblies (MMDAs), is organised on the first Saturday of every month across  the country.

In view of that, the Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Mr Julius Debrah, is meeting the institutions to plan activities involved in the exercise.

Speaking at a  meeting with management of SIC Life Company, Mr Debrah said the National Service Scheme (NSS) and the National Service Personnel Association had agreed  to deploy 50,000 personnel on sanitation days to assist with the collection and disposal of refuse across the country.

He said their deployment would require  inputs  such as wheelbarrows, gloves, wellington boots and working gears such as T-shirts.

He explained that the government alone would find it difficult to provide all the logistics,  hence the appeal to the various institutions to complement the efforts of the government.

Mr Debrah said the Ministry was also soliciting the support of companies to allow their workers to participate in the National Sanitation Day exercise.

Mr Ralph Agbeko, Deputy Managing Director of SIC Life, commended the Ministry of Local Government for its efforts at building Ghanaians’ interest in environmental sanitation. 

He said sanitation was a basic thing every individual was involved in daily but it seemed many had taken that fact for granted.

He said because many people had taken it for granted, there was the need  to keep reminding Ghanaians of the importance  of the sanitation day for  them to rededicate themselves to sound environmental practices.

He said sanitation had been part of the company’s social responsibility activities and the addition of the Sanitation Day activities as part of its corporate responsibility would readily receive support from management  of SIC Life.

At the Ministry of Defence, the Minister of Defence, Dr Benjamin Kunbour, assured the Minister of Local Government that the Military High Command was ready to deploy its engineers to work alongside the engineers of the Ministry of Local Government to ensure that  good work was done.