Zoomlion intensifies clean up exercise

Zoomlion Ghana and its partners have intensified the routine sanitation programme to rid most communities of filth and dirt in the three Northern Regions.

The monthly community rotational exercise on Saturday witnessed high turnout in the Mamprusi West District capital, Walewale and the Bolgatanga Municipality where hundreds of the company’s partner teams converged to clean the towns.

The team, including the sanitation task force of Zoomlion, the sanitation model under the National Youth Employment Programme and Zoom Alliance, de-silted gutters, picked litters, pruned trees and cut grasses and weed.

At Walewale, the team cleaned the Walewale Market which had not been cleaned for several weeks due to unresolved problems between the market and the assembly.

Two assembly members, Mr Yahaya Mu-Azu and Mr Martin Ayikode of the Fongni and Kukuazugu Electoral Areas were with the team to support and give direction.

According to the assembly members, the cleaning programme had come to stay as most residents are beginning to appreciate the need to keep their environments clean.

They called on those community members who could not come out to join the exercise to avail themselves during the next cleaning exercise.

In Bolgatanga, the team undertook the exercise around the Atulbabisi Electoral Area, the Daporetindongo area, and parts of the Bolga main station after being addressed by officials at Jubilee Park.

Mr. Francis Atayuure Abirigo, Public Relations Officer of Zoomlion in charge of the three Northern Regions, said his outfit would ensure that filth within communities were reduced drastically to improve the health of the citizenry. He said the monthly clean-up exercise undertaken all over the country would be sustained to ensure that its objective was achieved.

Mr. Abirigo said Zoomlion had strategically brought several sanitation companies and groups together so that they could achieve the objective of keeping Ghana clean and ensuring the good health of Ghanaians.