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Good Sanitation is Key to personal development - Bawku MCE

The Bawku Municipal Chief Executive Hajia Hawa Nincheama, has urged the youth in the communities to keep their surroundings clean all the time, since cleanness is next to godliness.

Date Created : 3/2/2021 12:00:00 AM : Story Author : Ghanadistricts.com

She made this call during the inaugural ceremony of the first Bawku youth parliament, an imitation of the National Parliament to discuss youthful development issues at their level in the municipality, with a rolling debate motioned “The state of sanitation in Bawku”.

She explained that focusing on promoting healthy and clean environment was next to Godliness as directed in the Holy Scriptures.

The MCE reminded the Youth of their role in nation building and that they should continue to be proactive to protect the environment and its inhabitants.

Mr Joseph Bawa Mahama the Bawku Municipal Director of Environmental Health and Sanitation who touched on the debate motion explained that sickness could come out of poverty and that could as a result of poor environment generating from poor sanitation conditions in the area.

He bemoaned indiscriminate littering of the environment and charged the youth to be ambassadors of eliminating it. Mr Seidu Atiraah Issah, Speaker for the Bawku Youth Parliament described the role of Ghanaian youth towards democratic governance and national development as paramount and they were committed to contributing their quota.

“The Ghanaian youth has become vulnerable due to its inability to explore the available opportunities and to have their voice in national matters that bother on their very existence.

“The youth in Ghana have become catalyst for political vandalism and violence. The youth have become weapons of destruction in the hands of self-centered greedy politicians”. He noted.

Mr Issah underscored the need for them out of political exploitations and casualties of economic struggle.

He called for their participation in the governance structure of the country adding that the youth, failed to appreciate civic duties and rights under the 1992 constitution and modern day political dispensations due to these factors.

He explained that the attitude of some youth in governance and law have rendered them as instruments of exploitation by rogue elements who used them.

She said the youth is a driving force for national development and championing the course for good sanitation through programmes, it drum home good messages to the people