Accra, Aug 22, GNA - Mr. Daniel Armatey Mensah, Chief Executive of the Ledzekuku Municipal Assembly, on Saturday, advised the residents of the area to cultivate healthy habits towards eliminating filth and its related diseases.

He told the Ghana News Agency after the Elite Keep Fit Club, Zoom Lion Company and eight other keep fit clubs in the area had embarked on a clean up exercise in Teshie, a suburb of Accra. The exercise is also to create a congenial atmosphere for the impending Homowo festival.

Mr Mensah said the municipality was faced with many challenges such as filth and the lack of places of convenience but added that the assembly would resolve them with weekly clean up exercises, placement of waste bins at vantage points and the construction of modern places of convenience.

He called for the cooperation of the people to make the programme successful. He commended the organizers of the clean up exercise and assured them of the Assembly's support anytime they wanted to embark on similar exercises.

Mr Gans Lartey, the chairman of Elite Keep Fit Club, said the club would organise a clean up exercise every week as part of its social responsibility to the community. He expressed the hope that the exercise would foster unity among the youth and encourage the youth to see cleanliness as a way of life. He stated that Elite club in collaboration with other clubs, in the community, would ensure that Ledzekuku Municipal is adjudged the healthiest assembly in the capital. 22 Aug 09