Vice President of Ghana, Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, together with some selected keep-fit clubs across the country are expected to participate in this year’s Republic Day walk in Accra on August 12, 2017.

The walk, which is being organised by the El-Wak Keep Fit Club, is aimed at enhancing the health status and well-being of the participants and also to provide the platform for partakers to network.

Chairman of the El-Wak Keep Fit Club, Mr. Abdul Karim Hatsu, in a press release said the walk, which is on the theme: ‘Ghana at 60: Staying Fit in a Healthy Environment for Unity and National Development,’ will begin at the El-Wak Stadium with a procession through the principal streets in the capital.

He said about 60 keep-fit clubs from the Greater Accra, Central, Eastern and Volta Regions, as well as participants from Togo are expected to take part in the walk, which is in its 18th year.

Mr. Hatsu said it was also to provide the platform for good social and business networking with top business executives who are expected to throng the annual event.

‘We are maintaining our traditional route covering a distance of about 15 kilometres, starting from the El-Wak Stadium through 37 Military Hospital, Pig Farm, Kotobabi, Newtown, Nima-Mamobi, Accra Girls and back to the starting point’, Mr Hatsu added.