The Talensi District Chief Executive, Millim Nabwomya has indicated the Assembly’s resolve to crack the whip on sanitation offenders in order to achieve a clean and healthy district.
Mr. Millim Nabwomya made this disclosure during the monthly National Sanitation Day exercise in Tongo where residents turned out in their numbers to help clean the environment.
The focus was on the Tongo central market where human activities result in filth.
According to the Upper East Regional Environmental Health Directorate, the indiscipline among residents in the region with regard to sanitation and hygiene is disturbing.
He said indiscriminate disposal and intentional littering of waste in public are contributing to flooding and spread of diseases in the region.
In the Talensi District, choked gutters, silted drains, blocked water ways and uncollected waste were cleared by residents including the District Chief Executive, the Member of Parliament and the Coordinating Director of the Assembly.
Personnel of the Ghana Nnational Fire Service cleaned choked gutters with water from their tenders.
Mr Millim Nabwomya has therefore issued a stern warning to residents that the law will be applied without any consideration.
“I have charged the sanitation officers that anybody who does not want to follow the right ethics, they should bring the person up to face the law because now that we have done this education, we expect everybody to obey. Wherever one’s right begins, the other person’s right ends. So you cannot unnecessarily inconvenience others. So I have charged my sanitation workers to be up and doing. If anybody intentionally wants to disobey the laws, the law will take its course”, Mr. Millim Nabwomya warned.
“So all together we can deliver a protected environment because the environment is ours and we are the environment”, he added.
The Upper East Regional Environmental Health Officer, Charles Awuni expressed worry over the increasing littering of the environment by residents in all the districts and called for resetting of human behavior towards cleanliness.
The Member of Parliament for Talensi, Duung Mahama urged all stakeholders in the Constituency to collaborate well on sanitation issues and that the Assembly together with his office have rolled out plans to provide conducive and improved sanitation facilities.
Duung Mahama pleaded with residents to obey the Assembly’s by-laws in order not to be arrested.
By Tanko Mohammed Rabiu
