Sunyani(B/A) Feb. 27 GNA - The Brong=96Ahafo Regional

Minister Mr Kwadwo Nyamekye Marfo, at the weekend

reiterated the need to sustain and maintain the reputation of the

Sunyani municipality as the neatest municipality in the country. He appealed to the people to rekindle the communal spirit,

which he noted had died down in recent times, to complement

government efforts at developing the country. Mr Nyamekye Marfo was addressing the people at the

Sunyani main lorry park after visiting the various areas where

clean-up exercises were conducted in the municipality to herald

the 54th Independence Anniversary Celebration. The regional minister appealed to the Municipal and District

Assemblies to ensure that clean up exercises were held on

monthly basis in order to make the task of ridding the

community of filth less difficult and burdensome. Some of the groups and organisations that took part in the

hour-long exercise included the personnel of the police service,

garages association and some community members. The rest were churches, boys scout, third infantry battalion,

PROTOA, metro mass transport, prisons service, Moslem

youth movement, Gonja youth association, immigration

service, Ghana National Fire Service, market women, GPRTU

taxi branch, Customs Exercise and Preventive Service and

some staff of the Brong 96 Ahafo Regional Coordinating

Council. They desilted drains along main roads, cleared weeds and

picked polythene materials and swept the streets along certain

areas including Cocoa House, Post Office, Rex through Old

GNTC to Joe Bennett Pharmacy. Other areas were the town centre traffic lights to hospital

traffic lights, SSNIT House through Municipal Hospital to Goil

Filling Station, Atronie station, Penkwase traffic light through

regional hospital to medical village junction. Some personnel of Zoomlion were also on hand to

fumigate gutters and drains along streets. The Sunyani Municipal Chief Executive Mr Kwasi

Oppong=96Ababio, thanked the participants for taking part in the

exercise and appealed to them to keep up the spirit to maintain

the good reputation of the municipality. The MCE also called for good environmental management

of the Nana Bosoma Market in Sunyani. Nana Bosoma Asor Nkrawiri II, Chief of Sunyani, noted

that there was the need to keep proper management of the

environment to check the high incidence and outbreak of

diseases in the system and do away with unhygienic

behaviours. He urged them to ensure safe and hygienic practices in their

homes, offices and in the markets.