The Mamponteng District Environmental Care Campaign Officer of the Church of Pentecost, Elder Ben Yamoah has profoundly spoken on the need for residents in the Municipality and its surrounding towns to be involved in sanitation campaigns regardless of where the initiative is coming from.

According to the Elder, if Ghanaians would devote time towards environmental cleanup exercises, the Nation would not be consumed by waste, which in return, breed infections.

 

 

“Everybody owe the environment a responsibility of tidiness. If each of us were allocating our time to tidy the country, Ghana would be a better place to live," he said at a press briefing on Saturday during the Environmental Care Campaign activity of the Mamponteng District.

“Cleanliness endorses hygiene and sanitation is not on a silver platter unless we function effective to keep the environment free from waste. It is our mandate as humans just like God commanded Adam when he was positioned in the Garden of Eden to dress and keep,” he added.

Districts under the New Tafo Area on Saturday, February 29, 2020 embarked on the Sanitation program per the directives of the Church to Possess the Nation as Agents of Transformation.

 

 

The Mamponteng District, led by Pastor Jerry and Wife, Mrs. Abena Agyemang Acquah on Friday invited religious, Health, Traditional and Political leaders to the Central Assembly to strategize on how Sanitation issues could be resolved in the Kwabre East Municipal.

Rev. Alexander Kwame Gyasi of the Mamponteng Baptist church, Rev Alexander Darko of Assemblies of God, Asanaa Imoro, Municipal Environmental Health Officer, Mashud Sali, Representative for Chief Imam, Hon. Suleman Yaminu, Assembly member for Bronum Electoral Area, Unit committee secretary for Bronum Electoral Area, Elder Appiah, Okyeame Kwaku Boateng, Mamponteng Hemaa Okyeame, Nana Acheampomaa Biraso, Mamponteng Akwamu Baa Panin, Nana Adwapa Kwartemaa, Kontre Obaapanin, Stella Ofori-Atta, Municipal Education Director, Presbyterian and Methodist pastors and a few others were present on the night.

 

 

Each of the leaders during their talk devised methods at which Sanitation could be implemented to keep the Municipality clean. They condemned certain attitudes of persons especially believers who knows better and admonished them to be agents of transformation through Sanitation.

According to Nana Braso, the Akwamu Baa Panin of Mamponteng Traditional Area and a Deaconess of the District, Self-centeredness within man is the reason why hygiene has come under threat. She explained that farmers’ inability to linger for the natural growth of foodstuffs has contributed to bad health and undefined illness.

 

 

She advised that sanitation is not just about cleaning and tidying but understanding and confiding in nature’s processes of cultivation. She therefore urged that education must be provided for farmers and food vendors on the consequence of their action in the near future.

“We are the enemies of our own self. Our love for money has brought about dubious ways to grow food and make sure they ripe within an unanticipated time especially tomato sellers. During such a time like this, because the vegetable has been scarce which has brought about an increase in demand, they prefer to nourish the unriped with fertilizers, which at some point in time creates dis-ease to consumers,” she said.

 

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The Deaconess encouraged on the need for the people in the Municipality to personally keep their surroundings clean, which in turn will affect the entire township and the Nation as a whole.

 

 

Pastor Jerry Kusi Acquah encouraged the stakeholders who were present on the night to make the campaign one of their key priorities especially the church leaders. He invented on the need to instruct their congregation to be familiar with certain mandates pertaining to the environment and make known to them the after-effect of messiness if not attended to.

The Mamponteng District on Saturday morning visited the Polyclinic and tidied the place.

Speaking to SoireeNews, the District Women’s Ministry Leader, Mrs. Vida Appiah encouraged the entire populace to get involved in the Church’s idea since it does not benefit only its members but the entire community. She advised on the need to be each other’s keeper by drawing our neighbor’s attention when they litter around to do what is right.

 

 

“We must all be involved to keep the community clean. When you see someone littering around, make sure to prompt the person on his actions,” she said.

Let us all be united in helping to curb waste from the country. If inhabitants are hygiene and the entire country is clean, monies spent on sanitation can be invested in different sectors of the economy to help move Ghana forward,” she added.