Clean Ghana Campaign Launched in UE(D/G, Monday, February 2, 2009. Pg 32)

Story: Benjamin Xornam Glover, Bolgatanga
Government has directed Municipal and District Assemblies as well as Heads of Departments in the Upper East Region to as a matter of urgency initiate steps aimed at ensuring a clean environment.
This is in line with the President John Atta Mills' initiative to Keep Ghana Clean within the first 100 days of his administration.
The Chief Director at the Regional Coordinating Council, Mr. Samuel N’lary conveyed the directive from the Government’s Transitional Team to the Municipal and District Chiefs Executives and their respective Coordinating Directors from the various assemblies at an emergency meeting held at Bolgatanga last Tuesday.
Mr. N’lary disclosed as part of efforts to ensure that the directive is complied with; a team of monitors from the Transitional Team will arrive in the region on February 24, this year to evaluate the level of compliance.
He therefore encouraged the assemblies and the heads of departments to mobilize their staff to participate fully in the exercise to help keep the region in particular and Ghana as a whole clean, stressing that “any institution that fails to heed to the directive would be passing judgments on its performance.”
Mr. N’lary also called on the people in the region to participate in a special weekly exercise aimed at achieving the set target.
He emphasized that it was incumbent for every citizens of the region to lend a hand to the exercise since it would promote good health.
Meanwhile, a nine-member Regional Monitoring Task Force was later instituted to supervise the special clean-up exercise in the region.
Membership of the team was made up of representatives from the Regional Coordinating Council, Information Service Department, National Commission for Civic Education, and Zoom lion Ghana Limited, a private waste management company.
The rest are, Regional Environmental Health Directorate, Environmental Protection Agencies, Red Cross Society, Ghana Police Service, and the Town and Country Planning.