Sanitation enforcement body will ensure tidy environment — Former Prez Rawlings

Daily Graphic Politics Nov - 28 - 2017 , 06:27 2 minutes read

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has expressed the conviction that the introduction of a sanitation enforcement body by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo recently will ensure a higher sense of social responsibility.

Commending students of the Mamfe Methodist Girls’ High School for their sense of discipline in keeping their environment clean and tidy, Former President Rawlings said he was impressed with their sense of responsibility, adding that even where there were adults, the police, sanitation inspectors and courthouses, the environments were always filthy.

“Let us hope that this will bring about the neat and tidy hygienic transformation we want to see in this country,” Flt Lt Rawlings said when he addressed the 4th Speech and Prize-giving Day of the Mamfe Methodist Girls High School at Mamfe, Akuapem, last Saturday.

Flt Lt Rawlings, who was a special guest at the ceremony, said though the students had no police, sanitation inspectors or courthouses to prosecute errant ones, the environment was always clean due to the sense of discipline inculcated in students.

Flt Lt. Rawlings said as a young Air Force pilot, whenever he flew over towns and villages, he noticed beautifully manicured patches along his flight path and discovered that most of those patches were actually well-kept environments of schools.

Positive sanitation habits

He called on the students to transfer the positive sanitation habits they learn at school to their various communities.

Please take these habits to your living environments so that we can help to educate our communities. You don’t even get paid for keeping this place tidy because of the structure – the relationship between yourselves, your prefects, and the authorities,” he added.

Mr Rawlings also urged adolescent girls not to pay attention to their self-consciousness at the expense of their mental consciousness and development.

“The time you have to tap into your mental consciousness and pass your examinations to enter the university is very short and I don’t want you to regret not having taken yourselves a little more seriously.

Do not take things for granted, do not take yourself for granted. Make the most of yourself when you have the time,” the former President counselled.