Prez Mahama advocates for regular clean-up exercise

President John Dramani Mahama says Government will institute regular clean-up campaigns to instill the spirit of cleanliness and health consciousness in Ghanaians. He said the 21st century Ghana, which is establishing herself as a middle income country, should not be experiencing preventable and hygiene related diseases such as cholera. President Mahama said this when he led a Government-delegation to participate in a clean-up exercise at Akoto Lante and Bukom in the Odododiodoo Constituency of the Accra Metropolis. According to the President, the spirit of cleanliness that existed in the revolutionary days were waning and it is, therefore, necessary to revive that spirit by whipping up the enthusiasm of people in communities with such exercises. He said apart from adults, school children and minors should not be charged for using the public toilets, adding that government would, in the next coming years, encourage the construction of household toilets rather than public toilets. President Mahama advised the public to quickly send people with the symptoms of cholera to health facilities to avoid more casualties as such delays had claimed numerous lives within the metropolis. 

Source: GNA