Massive turnout on Sanitation Day at Agortime-Kpetoe

The Agotime-Ziope District on Saturday mobilised a milling crowd to clean the district as part of Government's initiated National Sanitation Day using the traditional mass-communication media such as the gong-gong and megaphones.

“I am, myself, stunned by the response of the people.

We got the message through youth leaders to them.

The message went through town-criers using the gong-gong,” Michael Adzaho, the District Chief Executive (DCE), told the Ghana News Agency.

Participants cleaned the Health Centre, streets, drains and the market.

Every part of that peri-urban community was cleaned by the young and the old participating under different leaderships.

Mr Adjaho expressed gratitude to the Apex 10-member Sanitation Committee which superintended the exercise, working through community leaders and assembly members.

He told the gathering that Agotime-Ziope District had decided to vary the monthly sanitation day for the first Thursday and not Saturday of the month, because first Saturdays were normally days when families buried their dead.

Nene Akoto Sah VII, Chief Warlord of the Agotime Traditional Area, said access to the people was more fluid using traditional methods.

Nene Neur Keteku III, Konor of the Agotime Traditional Area, urged the community to maintain a clean environment.