The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) Executive Director, Prof. Browne Klutse, has urged Ghanaians to adopt environmental sanitation as a routine practice rather than restricting it to the two-day National Cleaning Exercise initiated by the President.
Prof. Klutse gave this advice whilst participating alongside EPA staff in a cleanup operation behind the EPA Head Office in Accra, situated opposite the Registrar General’s Department, as part of the nationwide campaign.
Expressing gratitude to the President for the directive, the EPA Boss emphasised that citizens must take personal responsibility for the cleanliness of their surroundings.
“EPA is out here cleaning our surroundings and we want to thank the president for this directive. In fact I keep thinking that I shouldn’t take the president to ask us to come out to do this work. As a nation and our citizens we need to keep our environment clean,” she stated.
Prof. Klutse encouraged the public to look past the two-day initiative and establish monthly cleanup exercises, whilst ensuring daily tidiness around their households.
“We also want to entreat that this shouldn’t be a one time event. If we can make a frequency of a monthly cleanup of our surroundings but of course it has to be a daily activity right near us. But then at this scale, nationwide, if you can do it monthly it will go a long way to help us with the environment and also prevent or reduce the impact of flooding when it happens.”
She confirmed that the entire EPA workforce across the nation is actively involved in the cleanup drive.
“Beyond Accra all EPA staff are out there working. So all the regional offices all the district offices and area offices staff they are all out. We are waiting to hear them from time to time. This morning we got the information that they are out working. From time to time we’ll get the progress of work as we are also working.”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
