Former Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Professor Agyeman Badu Akorsa, has suggested a collaboration between the National Commission on Civic Education (NCCE) and dancehall artistes Stonebwoy and Shatta Wale to educate the youth on the importance of good sanitation to help curb Ghana’s sanitation problems.

According to Prof Akorsa, both artistes have lots of followers and can be sanitation ambassadors who can help preach the message of sanitation to educate and sensitise the youth.

Prof Akorsah who was speaking to pupils of the Nima Cluster of Schools as part of the citizenship week celebration of the NCCE said: “So if you can imagine Shatta, Stonebwoy, two of them, and they are telling children of this country that hey if we can begin to package all the litter that we all produce, then this country will have a very clean environment. There’ll be no flies, there’ll be no germs, there’ll be no diseases, the air will be clean and all of us will grow to become very responsible citizens, so says Shatta Wale and so says Stonebwoy.

“So Shatta Wale of the Shatta movement and Stonebwoy of the Bhim nation, they will be speaking to all you young people of this country, will that not be a good thing? I think the only person who can do that is Madam Josephine Nkrumah".