Danak-IDP Awards 8 Assembly Members And Chiefs On Sanitation

Danak-IDP Awards 8 Assembly Members And Chiefs On Sanitation

Damak Sanitation Health Watch in collaboration with International Direct Project in Switzerland has organized sanitation and hygiene awards for selected assembly members and chiefs in eight districts in the Ashanti region.

Speaking during the programme, Director for Damak Sanitation Health Watch, Daniel Mbaburi Akgri said, the event aimed to ensure how the outfit can also contribute its quota toward keeping the cities clean thus, they decided to conduct a Google watch using digital address. codes to monitor the performance of the selected communities.

Even though it was challenging to make the people buy into the idea since it was a new system we intended to adopt… we were able to achieve our intended purpose.

Mr. Mbabugri went on to appeal to the government through the Ministry of Sanitation to ensure the waste levy is being used judiciously where a small portion of the Levy can be allocated directly to assembly members to use in providing sanitation services to the communities.

On his part, the overall winner, Hon. Ernest Okai, assemblyman for the Asafo electoral area thanked the organizers for the kind gesture and went ahead to appeal to colleague assembly members not to let guard of their efforts to ensure their electoral areas are periodically clean.

“Since I became assemblyman, today is the second time I have been awarded for my good work done and I employ everyone to help assembly members in their quest of providing sanitation service to the communities”.

The chief of Aputuogya, Nana Asakyem Kwakye also received an award for keeping his community clean…because an old decades bullers which was a problem confronting the community health, have been cleared by Nana Asakyem Kwaye.

1. Speaking to the media after the programme, he urged assembly members and all sundry to let sanitation issues be their hallmark