Zoomlion calls for assistance to help clean Ghana

Tamale, Oct. 31, GNA – Mr Abdallah Abdulai, the Northern Regional Manager of Zoomlion Ghana Ltd has called for the assistance of the general public on the need to keep their surroundings clean from filth so as to prevent contracting diseases.

It said efforts by the company to clean the country and ensure good environmental practices would be fruitless if the individual does not understand the need for personal hygiene and help keep their environment clean.

Mr Abdallah Abdulai, the Northern Regional Manager of Zoomlion Ghana Ltd, said this in Tamale on Monday during a durbar of the chiefs and people of Tamale at the palace of the Dakpema.

He said to ensure productive and healthy city, residence must imbibe in themselves the habit of keeping the environment clean adding that unnecessary polythene bags must be properly disposed off to keep the city in good order.

He called on traditional rulers, teachers, religious leaders, market women/men, drivers and passengers to play a key role in helping to keep the country clean.

Mr Asumah Iddi, Tamale Metro Sanitation Officer, expressed worry that poor sanitation was the major cause of most of the diseases at the Out-Patient Departments (OPD) at the hospitals and noted that if people could keep to good sanitary practices, OPD attendance would be reduced in the country.

He said a good clean environment attracts investors and could increase the country's GDP and called on residents to cooperate with Zoomlion to raid the city of its filth.

Mr Oscar Provencal, Public Relations Officer of Zoomlion, appealed to the chiefs in the metropolis to use their influence to help ensure good sanitary practices and called on the people to be responsible for the waste they generate.

The Dakpema Na Alhassan Dawuni who spoke through an interpreter commended Zoomlion for creating jobs for the youth and contributing to the development of the nation.

GNA