The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, through the Bono Regional Coordinating Council has ended the markets disinfection exercise in the region with a massive cleanup exercise.
According to the Municipal Chief
Executive, Honourable Awo Owusu-Banahene Jestina, Sunyani is poised for
cleanliness and Covid-19 is reinforcing its neatness. She however urged that
society should not sit down for diseases to attack before cleaning the
environment to improve health.
She noted that the municipality is
strictly adhering to the all the preventive protocols hinting that before
reopening of the schools for final year students, children between ages 2-16 were
not allowed to come out and parents of offenders were prosecuted.
Again, the municipality has set up a Corona
market to help control the spread of the virus. She explained that the municipality
agreed to use the stadium, Sunyani Coronation Park, as a temporal market with
well spaced structures to ensure physical and social distancing among the
traders as well as buyers.
...to ensure spacing, we used the Coronation Park as an interim market and christened it corona market,” she stated.
The MCE observed that the military have
been very helpful during this period adding that the presence of the joint
patrol team of military, police, immigration has even led to a reduction in
crime rate in the municipality.
To motivate the security forces, the MCE
said she provides lunch to the patrol team daily. She commended the Omanhene of
Sunyani Traditional Area, Nana Bosoma Asor Nkrawiri II, who donated GHc10,000
to support the fight against Covid-19 in the municipality. She therefore called
for others to emulate the act and support the region to get rid of the virus.
Honourable Awo, as popularly called, expressed
gratitude to the joint security forces and Zoomlion for undertaking the cleanup
exercise.
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