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Kassena-Nankana West DCE campaigns against bush fires

Mr Gerald Atawogie, the Kassena-Nankana West District Chief Executive (DCE), has urged stakeholders including; the traditional authorities and farmers to form groups that would aid in preventing bush fires during the dry season.

Date Created : 1/14/2018 12:00:00 AM : Story Author : GNA

Mr Atawogie said bush fires over the years were a threat to farmers, destroying maize and rice fields that were ready for harvest and also killing soil nutrients thereby depleting the fertility of farm lands in the area.

Mr Atawogie made the call in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at Paga to lament on the extent of damage bush fires had caused the area in previous years.

He said the area used to be a wild life zone, rich in many different animals, but due to the indiscriminate burning of the bushes most of the animals had migrated to other places.

Mr Atawogie called on stakeholders such as the chiefs and community leaders to form groups that would educate the people on the negative effects of bush fires and the need to preserve and protect the environment.

He said the Assembly would then correspond with such groups to enforce by-laws on the protection of the environment and noted that with all stakeholders uniting with a common frontier force it would make it difficult for people to disobey the laws made by the communities.

On sanitation, Mr Atawogie said out of 223 communities in the district, about 91 of them had achieved the Open Defecation Free status and effort was being made to ensure all communities in the district attained good sanitation status.

He said capacity building measures had been instituted for chiefs, opinion leaders and community members to focus their attention on the promotion of quality education, health and projecting good socio-economic activities in the area.

The DCE said education was a priority to the people in the area and appealed to role models including; the Members of Parliament to create avenues that would allow the younger generation to emulate them.

Mr Atawogie urged stakeholders to support government policies which he believed would create platforms that would transform the current Ghanaian society to a better level.

He said programmes such as the Nations Builders Corps (NABCO), Planting for Food and Jobs and the one Village one dam among others, given the needed support would help grow the economy.

He called on the communities in the district to support the implementation of the Assembly's programmes including; taxations, sanitation and health so as to attain quality livelihood for the people in the area.