The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development has selected the Sunyani Municipal Assembly to implement the Ghana Secondary Cities Support Programme (GSCSP), a development initiative of the government.

The programme would fetch the Assembly about GH¢25 million to pursue its development agenda in the next three years.

GSCSP, a five-year programme being implemented in 25 District and Municipal Assemblies in the country is expected to end by 2023 and it is being financed by World Bank loan facility of US$100 million dollars.

According to Madam Justina Owusu-Banahene, the Sunyani Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), the amount would be channeled into sanitation, electricity, enhancement in revenue mobilisation, private sector development, city roads and disaster management.

Addressing the First Ordinary Meeting of the Fourth Session of the Sixth Assembly in Sunyani, Mad. Owusu-Banahene said the Assembly required active private sector participation to achieve desirable results.

She entreated the staff of the Assembly to promote teamwork and put in their maximum efforts to enable it to enjoy the opportunity and the huge investment support to push the development of the Municipality to the next level.

Touching on sanitation, Madam Owusu-Banahene announced the Assembly had re-introduced the national sanitation day, which is a monthly clean-up exercise on the first Saturday of every month to keep the city clean.

She said the sanitation day begins earnestly on Saturday, June 1 and appealed to the Assembly Members, youth groups and associations, fun clubs and religious organisations to fully participate in the exercise.

The MCE pointed out that environmental sanitation was a shared and collective responsibility, and warned the general public against littering and indiscriminate dumping of waste in the Municipality.