The Fanteakwa North District Assembly has vowed to ruthlessly deal with persons caught stealing dustbins in the District.
According to the District Chief Executive, Charles Oware -Tweneboah, some unscrupulous persons in the District particularly Begoro have been stealing the large dustbins placed at vantage areas of the community, seriously setting back the effort by the Assembly to minimize littering and keep the District clean.
“We provided eight dustbins to Osino Presby School which was under our district, gave eight to Nsutem Senior High School, we put some in other vantage areas in Begoro, the funeral grounds, Abaase and all the electoral areas in Begoro were provided dustbins so that people will discard waste into it but the painful aspect is that they have been stolen,” he said.
He said as part of the Assembly’s plan to ensure effective waste management in the District, efforts are underway to distribute more waste bins in vantage areas in the District but cautioned residents to desist from taking them away.
The DCE said this Saturday at Begoro during a massive cleanup exercise organized by the Fanteakwa District Directorate of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) and participated by all the staff of the decentralized institutions in the district including personnel of Fire Service, Education Service among others.
The Fanteakwa North District Director of NADMO, Rev. Opoku Acheampong, told Starr News, the exercise is part of concerted plan to clear the District of filth before the raining season to help mitigate perennial flooding incidents and the outbreak of communicable diseases during the season
He said the exercise will continue in other communities in the district until the Organization is satisfied.
He added that NADMO has intensified public education on the effect of littering the environment aimed at causing behavioral change among residents.
Source: Ghana/Starrfm.com.gh/103.5FM/Kojo Ansah