Thousands of residents of Mampong-Akuapem in the Akuapem North Municipality of the Eastern Region embarked on massive clean up exercise as part of their preparation towards the 2020 Ohum – Odwira festival.
This clean up exercise features the traditional rulers, MCE for the Municipality and some executive members of the NPP in the constituency.
In an interview with the press, the MCE for Akuapem North Municipal Assembly, Hon. Berima Awuah Sarpong Asiedu-Larbi explained that, in every year, before the Ohum festival will take off they embark on clean up exercise to ensure that the entire township become neat to pave way for the festival.
He added that, “the Ohum festival is being celebrated to perform tradition and custom to purified the town and also to ask God for his mercies and blessings upon the town in subsequent years”
“This programme we embarked on is in support of the sanitation system we want to put in place to make sure that Akuapemman become neat”
Hon. MCE continue to say, “those days, if you’re walking in Akuapemman, you won’t see any filthy or mosquitoes around but today because of the increase of the populace things have changed”
” So we took this clean up exercise upon ourselves to create awareness to the people of Okuapemman to know and understand how importance it is to beautify their various communities or environment regularly to prevent themselves from getting diseases like malaria and cholera and also to stay healthy”
Later on Kingdom FM’s KONTIHEN KOFI OBOH had an interview with the Akuapem North Constituency Women’s Organizer for the ruling NPP, Mrs. Awo Yaa Boatemaa Aboagye stated, the program was organized by the youth of the constituency but unfortunately Hon. Nana Ama Dokua their MP couldn’t make it because of the heavy downpour.
But all the same, other executives of the NPP came and support the exercise.
She stressed, “when it comes to the issues surrounding sanitation in Ghana, Prez Nana Addo and the Sanitation Ministry have done marvelously well. All what I will say is that,’ we should keep our environment clean”
“If we do that the gov’t won’t spend huge money for purchasing medicines to cure the diseases. it will help the state to save enough money to run the country’s affairs” she noted.
Moreover the Odikro of Mampong , Nana Oware Ansah III shows his profound gratitude to the people of Mampong especially the youth for helping them to clean up the the whole township.
He said, “because of the Covid, this year’s Ohum festival there wouldn’t be any social gathering”
Source//obohnews.
BY// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.
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