Good sanitation is a shared responsibility – Veep

Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has called on the public to take active interest in sanitation matters since good sanitation is a shared responsibility.

He stressed the need to mobilise the people to clean their communities and neighbourhoods to ensure clean, safe and healthy environment.

Vice President Amissah-Arthur said this after taking part in a clean-up exercise to clear the filth in some public schools and communities in Accra.

Some of the places he visited were the Kanda Cluster of Schools, Nima Market and Kanda 441 Basic School.

According to the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, this maiden National Sanitation Day clean-up exercise was to tackle sanitation in homes and basic schools in the various communities.

The Government recently instituted the National Sanitation Day making the first Saturday of every month a day to embark on cleanup exercises nationwide to ensure a clean and healthy environment as well as to tackle the cholera outbreak.

Vice President Amissah-Arthur’s first point of call was the Kanda Cluster of Schools, near the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, where he joined residents from the Nima community and personnel of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly to clear the rubbish on the schools compound.

He later visited the Nima Market and the Kanda 441 Basic School to examine the clean-up exercise going on there.

Vice President Amissah-Arthur, speaking to the media after the exercise, appealed to community leaders, the media and chiefs to help sustain the exercise.

He said the sanitation exercise had enormous benefits for the people and the communities as it would ensure healthy living and prevent diseases.

He said though there was no special budget for the exercise, the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development was using part of its budgetary allocation to support the programme.