Awutu Beraku, C/R, June 26, GNA- Mr Solomon Quarshie Abbam Quaye, District Chief Executive for Awutu-Effutu-Senya on Sunday exhibited good leadership by example when he joined members of the Awutu Emasa Youth Association to undertake a five-hour clean up exercise at Awutu Beraku. They desilted gutters, weeded, swept public places including the market, durbar grounds, the traditional council halls, and the police station and also removing most of the garbage in the town. The presence of the District chief executive drew a large crowd, including the chiefs, Assembly members and most residents to take part in the clean up exercise.

Addressing the members after the exercise, Mr Quaye praised the association for organizing the exercise to tidy the town. He therefore urged other youth associations in the district to organize regular clean up exercises to support the efforts of the district assembly to get rid of the filth. He said the assembly spends huge sums of money for the management of sanitation in the district especially Kasoa, saying the budget allocation made this year for sanitation has been over spent. The DCE stated that the assembly could not afford to spend all its resources on sanitation and called on all and sundry to help reverse the situation.

He said owners of buildings and structures affected by the construction of the Kasoa-Cape Coast road who have been compensated should vacate them because they would soon be demolished. Mr Quaye warned land developers who put up structures without approval from the assembly to stop and that drastic action would be taken against offenders. The DCE said now that the demolishing exercise has been completed at Kasoa and Winneba, the district capital, the next target would be at Awutu Bawjiase.

He therefore appealed to the chiefs, opinion leaders, Assembly members and others to cooperate with the assembly to ensure the completion of the demolishing exercise. Mr Stanley Quaye, President of the association appealed to the assembly to support them with roofing sheets and boards to help roof the five pit latrines that had been sank by the association. He said the absence of the toilet facility in the town had necessitated some people to defecate indiscriminately in nearby bushes, which poses environmental and health hazards. He appealed to the assembly to impress upon the Electricity Company of Ghana and Ghana Water Company to extend power and water respectively to the new settlements within the town. 26 June 07