Waste management leader, Zoomlion Ghana Limited, on Saturday, June 04, 2016 supported Ga South Municipal Assembly to clean the municipality.
The clean-up exercise was part of the National Sanitation Day campaign, which exercise is aimed at ensuring that Districts and Assemblies keep their environs clean.
The turnout was massive as many of the youth in the Assembly came out in their numbers to help.
The participants, Today observed, helped in weeding shoulders of roads in the Assembly, particularly at the Mallam Junction, where it had been overgrown by weeds.
Some of them were also seen sweeping the streets and desilting the gutters.
Speaking with Today in an interview, a Communications Officer of Zoomlion Ghana Limited, Adams Mohammed Mahama, described the turnout as an improvement in last month’s exercise.
“This month’s [June] exercise has seen an improvement in the number of participants who had turned up,” he disclosed.
He attributed the high turnout to the support by the various youth associations, churches, who contributed by volunteering some of their members to come and help.
According to Mr. Mohammed Mahama, his outfit supported with logistics among which included 500 brooms, 100 wheel barrows, 50 cutlasses, 1000 gloves and 1000 nose masks.
He went on to disclose that Zoomlion also brought along one skip truck and two compaction trucks to help in the general cleaning of Ga South Municipal Assembly.
Summing it up Mr. Mohammed Adams described the exercise as “successful.”
He thus urged the general public to come out in their numbers and support the National Sanitation Day exercise.
He also seized the opportunity to advise Ghanaians to stop the practice of dumping solid wastes into drains.
This practice, he indicated, was one of the many factors that cause floods in the capital city-Accra.
The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) was also there to deal with any unfortunate incident that occurs.
