Saltpond (C/R), April 25, GNA - A cholera education campaign has been launched at Saltpond with a call on people who litter and defecate anyhow to stop the practice. Mr Henry Kweku Hayfron, Mfantseman Municipal Chief Executive, expressed disappointment about the attitude of some people who intentionally create filth for workers of ZoomLion and the Zoil Eco Brigade to clear.

He said such people did that because according to them if they did not create filth the workers would be enjoying their pay without doing any work.

"It is not only when we put on clean clothes that we are regarded as being neat but also how our environment is kept clean," he said. Mr Hayfron commended Mr Godfred Ato Donkor, an Assembly Member who initiated the programme together with Mr Ato Rockson, Stephen Moses and E.K. Mintah all members of the Mfantseman Municipal Assembly.

Miss Helena Tibiru, Mfantseman Municipal Disease Control Officer, said even though no case of the disease had been confirmed in the Municipality it was necessary that precautionary measures were taken and commended the Assembly members who initiated the campaign. She said reports from the Central Regional Directorate of the Health Services showed that 495 cases had been recorded in five districts with 16 deaths.

Mr Alex Beechem Snr, the Presiding Member of the Municipal Assembly, said very soon the Assembly would enact by-laws prosecute people who do not keep gutters in front of their houses clean.