Enforcing sanitation by-laws will prevent cholera – Serikin

Fanyinama Yusif Wangara III, Serikin Kintampo, has reiterated the need for enforcement of sanitation by-laws to prevent the annual cholera epidemic.

He emphasized that the Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies (MMDAs) must ensure the strict enforcement of the laws on sanitation, saying that would not only prevent untimely deaths but also save the nation a lot of money in the treatment of that disease, which would also reduce the Government’s expenditure on health care delivery.

Fanyinama Wangara, who is also the Paramount Chief of the Wangara Community in Ghana, made the suggestion in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA), at Kintampo in the Brong Ahafo Region, at the weekend, to precede a national durbar to climax this year’s Benkadi Kurubi Festival.

The week-long programme on the theme “Environmental Sanitation and our Health, Prevention of Cholera in the Country”, aimed at cementing the bond of unity among Wangaras, especially in promoting the sense of discipline, good morality and patriotism amongst the Wangara youth.

Fanyinama Wangara stated: “The people of Kintampo are born and bred with a communal spirit. We must, therefore, rekindle that spirit to maintain it as a legacy left behind by our ancestors for the economic and social advancement of this area.”

He expressed regret that though Kintampo had continually played a significant role in national socio-economic development, it currently lacked the needed facelift to signify its importance in the pre and post- colonial progress of Ghana.

Fanyinama Wangara implored the residents and indigenes of the town to re-awaken that spirit of communalism among them as pivot around which they could contribute resources in diverse ways to augment the government’s efforts to progress their area.