The Vice President Kwasi Amissah-Arthur is in a lead role cleaning gutters and dirty surroundings in the Eastern Region as part of the National Sanitation Day exercise.

The sanitation day observed once every month is geared towards cleaning the environment and to inculcate in citizens the need to keep their surroundings clean at all times.

While the day is observed nationwide, the government decided, as a policy to make one region the host region for a particular month and changes the host for another month.

With Ashanti, Volta, Northern Regions taking its turn already in the National Sanitation Day as hosts, it was the turn of the Eastern Region.

Joy News' Eastern Regional correspondent Edwin Siaw reports that the Vice president is admonishing Ghanaians to take sanitation issues very serious in their daily life.

He had joined the residents to clean the gutters and other areas that needed to be cleaned.

The vice president later took time off to interact with some drivers in the Eastern Region.

The Deputy Local Government Minister Mr Emmanuel Agyekum was also part of the high profile personalities who took part in the sanitation programme.

Residents of Somanya were also excited to take part in the exercise.