Clean Up Exercise At Sege Township

Residents of Sege and staff of the Ada West District Assembly united to conducted a clean-up exercise in and around the Sege township on Saturday 12^th April, 2025. This exercise is in observance of the National Sanitation Day initiative instituted to promote environmental cleanliness, enhance the aesthetics of the communities, promote community involvement in sanitation nationwide and eventually bring about behavioral change towards ill sanitation practices.

The team was also supported by the officers of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), Zoomlion Ghana limited and the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO). Community members come out in their numbers to support the exercise and an assurance of their commitment to ensuring the community is cleaned up. Volunteers participating in the exercise was approximately seventy (70) in number.

The participants were divided into four groups to ensure efficient coverage. They were equipped with gloves, nose masks, brooms, shovels, rakes and other tools for the exercise. Officers of the GNFS brought their fire tender to desilt sand and debris from the drains to prevent stagnation of water.

The areas covered by the four groups were the cemetery, the lorry park(station), areas along the ECOWAS highway (N1), the market/ secondary school area and the drains along Sege-Battor road. The objective of the day was to remove debris, litter and desilt the drains. With the benevolence of a community member, the trash mainly, of plastics, bottles, obsolete household items, were collected into his truck and that of the zoomlion company to the final disposal sites. After about five (5) hours, the aesthetic view of the Sege township was neatly enhanced significantly.

Amidst the enthusiasm to rid filth from the environment, inadequate logistics was the main challenge the team faced during the exercise. Volunteers took turns to rotate brooms, shovels and other tools to complete the exercise.

Top management officers of the District Assembly also took part in the cleaning up exercise. The District Coordinating Director, Mr. Kwadwo Bour Gyamfi, commended all the participants for their dedication to bringing this initiative to a success. The staff of the District Environmental Office, led by Ms. Millicent O. Macarthy successfully, supervised this clean-up exercise.