Wa, Nov. 13, GNA - Mr Mac Adams Banda, the Wa Municipal Chief Executive, at the weekend launched the sanitation component of the Youth Employment Programme (YEP) in the Municipality at Wa and urged those who had been offered employment to avoid absenteeism and laziness. He said the programme, apart from offering jobs to them, also aimed at securing their services towards the development of their communities. Each of the 25 workers was presented with a tricycle fitted with a refuse container to collect rubbish from house to house within the municipality.

Mr Banda advised them to work hard to for the Municipality to reclaim the status of being the cleanest town in the country, a position it had lost to its competitors in recent years. He said Zoom Lion Company limited was responsible for the payment of workers of the sanitation component of the programme and the Municipal Assembly's only duty was to meet its contractual obligations to the company.

Mr Umar Mahama, the Wa Municipal Coordinator of YEP, said ensuring a clean environment was one of the most suitable ways of preventing diseases and urged them to tackle their duties with seriousness.