Nkoranza (B/A), July 27, GNA - About 60 workers of the Nkoranza District Assembly have undertaken a massive clean up exercise to sweep the main street of Nkoranza township and collected heaps of sand by the sides of the roads to make the town clean.

Mr Gyedu Nuako, District Coordinating Director, Mr Daniel Agyarko, District Environmental Health Officer, Mr Kyere Boateng, Principal Executive Officer of the assembly and Madam Alice Vorieto, District Public Health Nurse led the workers to undertake the exercise. Mr Gyedu Nuako, who addressed the people, said the exercise was aimed at ensuring the sustainability of the good record that Nkoranza District had been identified with, as the best district in terms of environmental sanitation and therefore called on all the people to keep their environment clean and to free themselves from contracting communicable diseases.

He said the management of the assembly would encourage and ensured that such exercise was carried out monthly in order to keep the township clean at all times.

Mr Nuako stressed the need for community leaders such assembly members, unit committees, traditional rulers and religious leaders to organise their people to undertake similar exercises in the communities so as to enhance their health and to prevent the outbreak of epidemics in the areas

The District Environmental Health Officer, Mr Daniel Agyarko disclosed that his outfit had designed a work plan to involve the various working groups in Nkoranza to undertake such exercises and to inculcate into their members communal and voluntary spirit so as to enable them render selfless services towards the development of the communities.

Mr Agyarko mentioned some of the target groups as the hairdressers and dressmakers associations, truck and wheelbarrow pushers, shoeshine boys and the sanitary labourers, banking institutions and students unions.

He deplored the negative practices and attitudes of some livestock keepers in the communities, who allowed their animals to stray in the streets, thereby loitering the places and to cause nuisance to the public.