President Mahama has promised to control dirt in the country by institutionalizing a clean up exercise that takes place every month as part of efforts to clamp down on filth and filth related disasters.
After the June 29 floods that hit Accra and other parts of the country, the President announced a two day cleanup exercise on the July 10 and 11 to help control the filth in the country.
While walking around major parts of the region with an entourage including the Ga Mantse King Tackie Teiko Tsuru II, the President spoke to the media stressing heavily on the need for the exercise to continue.
According to him the number of days set aside for the exercise now will not be enough to finish the work and assured that the exercise will become a national affair.
He stated, “two days are not enough to finish this work but we are going to Institute it so at least one day every month, all of us should come out and clean our surroundings.”
President Mahama advised the nation to move away from “reckless dumping of things into the drains” and not be like “vultures” who procrastinate.
“We are not going to be like vultures who will say that when the rain stops he will repair his roof and when the rain stops he says but it is not raining so there is no need to repair it,” he said.
He emphasized the need for Ghanaians to embody the discipline of cleanliness, saying it is a long standing value that has always been part of us but because of urbanization, we have let go of them.
“That is what our traditional values were about, we were taught to clean our environments but when we all leave our hometowns and come, because of the anonymity of urbanization we think that nobody watches us so we dump those values and we live in filth,” the President said.
Source: Desmond Adom