Elmina, Feb. 20, GNA- Residents of Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) District, have been advised to ensure good sanitary practices so that the Assembly could concentrate on its development programmes, to improve the people's standards of living. Mr Frank George Asmah, District Chief Executive of KEEA, who made the request, said resources channelled into waste management could have been used on other projects to accelerate the socio-economic development of the area. He made the call when he joined residents of Elmina, the staff of the sanitation unit of the assembly and officials of Zoomlion Ghana limited, a private waste management company, to undertake a six-hour clean-up exercise to rid the township of filth. Mr. Asmah commended the people for massively participating in the clean-up and appealed to them to desist from indiscriminate dumping of refuse.

Zoomlion Ghana, provided tools to complement those supplied by the district assembly to facilitate the exercise, which formed part of activities heralding Ghana's Golden Jubilee Celebration, in the district.

School children, who joined the programme, swept the streets and collected refuse while adults disilted choked gutters and drains, cleared weeds and fumigated refuse dumps.

Unemployed youths in the area who took part in the exercise, appealed to the assembly to engage their services to keep the gutters clean and check residents from dumping refuse indiscriminately. Mr Bless Darkey, budget analyst at the assembly, gave the assurance that the assembly would discuss the request at its next sitting. Feb. 20, 07