Ada West DCE Cautions Communities on Communal Labour

ADA WEST DCE CAUTIONS COMMUNITIES ON COMMUNAL LABOUR

The Ada West District Chief Executive (DCE), Hon. Modjifa Tanihu J.J.F. Mills-Nkrumah briefing staff of the Ada West District Assembly after a clean-up exercise on Thursday, 5th February 2026 in the Addokope Electoral Area cautioned community members who deliberately refused to participate in planned clean-up exercises organized by the Assembly and urged Assembly members and Unit Committee members to do something about the issue.

The DCE who expressed gratitude about participation of Assembly staff especially National service personnel in the said clean-up exercise bemoaned the behavior of residents in the District towards communal labour. Whereas in some other districts, when clean-up exercises are organized on particular days of the week after enough publicity, citizens would come out in their numbers to participate, the story of Ada West District especially in Sege, the District capital appears to be different; clean-up exercises in communities in the District capital are rather left to the staff of the Assembly to undertake where one could see energetic young men and women looking on.

The story was not different during similar clean-up exercise at Hwakpo, one of the communities in the Addokope Electoral Area. During the said clean-up exercise which was the scheduled National first Saturday clean-up exercise but brought forward to Thursday, 5th February 2026, the Information Services Department (ISD) noticed that “okada riders”, young men by all indications were just looking on when the clean-up exercise was going on and when an officer of the ISD asked the Assembly member for the Area, Hon. Jonathan T. Asamanyuah why those young men could not participate in the clean-up exercise?, his response was that “here they politicized everything” and that we should ignore them. The Assembly member however indicated that because they started the exercise very early at 5am, some people came out earlier to work and left.

The DCE was indeed not happy about general conduct towards clean-up exercises in communities especially within the District capital, Sege, and urged the Environment Health Officer to ensure that her staffs are well assigned and live up to the task.