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Prez expresses worry about poor sanitation in UER
President John Evans Atta Mills on Saturday expressed worry about poor sanitary conditions in the upper East Region.
He, therefore, directed all Municipal and District Chief Executives in the Region to take up the issue of environmental protection seriously, especially the littering of polythene bags and other waste material.
The President, who was on the second day of his three-day working
visit to the Region, said he had noticed unpleasant sight of litter
all over the place.
President Mills asked the Chief Executives to focus more on the
general sanitation at towns and communities and not to let the poor
sanitary situation get out of control.
President Mills gave the directive when he inaugurated 30 boreholes at Zabugu-Natinga, near Bawku.
It formed part of a 791-borehole project for the Region in which the Bawku area would get 100 boreholes.
President Mills said the project was funded by government in fulfillment of its quest to ensure that every Ghanaian had safe
drinking water.
He said that the Government had done so much by providing
infrastructure and other facilities in various parts of the Region and
asked the Chief Executives to let the people know through the media
what was being done for them.
President Mills said government was improving education, citing
the implementing of crash programme to provide educational
infrastructure thereby reducing the number of classes under trees in
the Region.
He also said that second cycle institutions were benefiting from more that 90 projects, comprising the building of dormitories, teachers’ quarters, classroom blocks, assembly halls, laboratories, and the provision of vehicles to enhance supervision of teaching and administrative work among others.
The President said the Capitation Grant, School Feeding Programme,
Free Exercise Books and Uniform Project were being expanded to
increase enrollment in the first and cycle schools.