The Municipal Chief Executive for Sunyani, Justina Owusu Banhene has called for an attitudinal change of the residents of the Municipality to reduce filth which is gradually becoming a challenge for the Assembly.
She made the call during a clean-up exercise organized by the Sunyani Municipal Assembly in collaboration with Sunyani Concerned Youth and Zoomilion Ghana Limited.
With the increasing population in Sunyani, the city is experiencing increasing filth which has become a major concern of the Municipal Assembly.
Sanitation is becoming a challenge for the Assembly as people, especially traders continue to litter drains leading to choked gutters.
The clean-up exercise was to clear some drains in the Municipality.
The military, Fire Service, Prisons, and personnel from the Ghana Police Service, and some residents participated in the exercise.
Store owners at the Central Business District of Sunyani closed down their shops to make way for the clean-up exercise which lasted close to four hours.
The Sunyani Municipal Chief Executive, Justina Owusu Banahene attributed the increasing filth to the attitude of the residents saying: “I think Sunyani used to be one of the cleanest communities in Ghana but today that position is eluding us. The reason is that the attitudinal lifestyle of our market women and for that matter traders and sometimes even the buyers are causing all these things. You look at the debris around, I think that if every trade after finishing your day’s activities you sweep around and you put everything in a package when the Zoomlioin people come around they can pick them, but they leave it at the mercy of the weather and therefore wind blows them and at the end of the day they choke the gutters.”
She urged the media to support the Assembly in educating the residents on the need to keep their surroundings clean.
A representative of the Sunyani Concerned Youth group, Michael Kwasi Edwards called on the Sunyani Municipal Assembly to organize regular clean up exercises in the municipality to ensure Sunyani maintains its status as the cleanest city in Ghana.