News:
February 2, 2012
Residents of Kwadaso constituency in the Ashanti Region, may not experience malaria in the near future as the area’s Member of Parliament Dr Afriyie Akoto led his constituents in a massive cleanup campaign to rid the area of filth.
The MP leads his constituents who are New Patriotic Party (NPP) supporters to clean up the community every Sunday morning to sustain the cleanliness of the area.
The exercise which has so far covered eight of the fourteen communities in the constituency and it’s expected to cover the rest very soon.
The laudable exercise saw the clearing of weeds and dredging of choked gutters to allow easy flow of stagnant water those results in the breeding of mosquitoes.
Hon. Dr Afriyie Akoto in an interview with the media stated that he feels bound as the MP for the area to ensure that his constituent continue have a healthy living.
He said Ghana needed its human resource base to develop effectively within the shortest possible time and urged the populace to make efforts to live in a clean environment to avoid preventable diseases that could lead to their untimely death.
Dr. Akoto stated that the motive for the exercise was to create awareness about the need for people to live in a healthy environment and hoped the community would learn vital lessons from it.
Kwadwo Anim/ghanamps.gov.gh