NSD TURNOUT IS IMPRESSIVE BUT CLEAN YOUR SURROUNDINGS REGULARLY - DCE 4th OCTOBER, 2025

Hon. Stephen Akurgo (Shovel in hand)
The Kassena-Nankana West District Chief Executive [DCE], Hon. Stephen Aeke Akurugo led a team of staff from the Assembly and other departmental staff in the district to join Kandiga community members, personnel of the security agencies and some political party executives to undertake the monthly clean-up exercise in and around the main Kandiga market. The exercise is in tandem with the country’s National Sanitation Day (NSD) which comes off every first Saturday of each month.

The Kandiga episode of the clean-up exercise marked the second in the district as the initial one was held on 20th September, 2025 in Paga, the district’s capital. It will be recalled that the President, John Dramani Mahama did a relaunch of the NSD in Accra on September 6, 2025 with the aim to eradicating filth across the country, to improve healthy environment in order to help reduce disease outbreaks and with a call on the citizenry participate actively in the exercise.

Addressing partakers in the clean-up exercise this Saturday morning in Kandiga (East of the district), Hon. Akurugo noted that the turnout was impressive, indicating that citizens have quickly bought into the NSD initiative. He however said instead of waiting on the monthly NSD, business owners, traders and the general public must cultivate the habit of daily cleaning of their work surroundings and homes and to dispose off waste through hygienic means in order not to cause any environmental health issues for the society. 

 Community members actively participated
 

The DCE used the occasion to appeal all Hon. Assembly Members to make it a duty to periodically replicate the clean-up exercise in their various electoral areas as the Government sees them as vital stakeholders in the success of the NSD. He also urged traditional authorities to join forces with the Assembly to improve revenue mobilization and to help seal loop holes in the collection process as a good percentage of such internally generated funds are remitted back to the Area Councils in the communities for purposes of local development.

Meanwhile the Kadniga chief, Naba Henry Abawine Amenga-Etego II who joined in to help supervise the clean-up requested of the DCE to construct a befitting toilet facility for the Kandiga market. Hon. Akurugo responded that the chief’s request was a legitimate one and pledged to hold discussions with Management on the issue to get it sorted as soon as possible.

All the rfused collected and heaped in the day, was all carted away leaving the Kandiga market and its immediate environs, neat and clean.

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