Zoomlion Ghana Limited has held a sanitation durbar at Adjei Kojo. The durbar, which was part of a series of Sanitation Durbars organized by the company, was aimed at engaging traditional authorities, stakeholders and opinion leaders in the community to brainstorm on how best to identify peculiar environmental sanitation challenges of the Adjei Kojo community, and hold discussions on how to effectively manage and overcome them. The Chief of Adjei Kojo, Nii Adjetey Adjei who also doubled as the Chairman for the occasion expressed his heartfelt appreciation to Zoomlion for extending the sanitation education to the Adjei Kojo community. He urged the people to desist from indiscriminate littering of the environment, adding, “ This is because the repercussions of our actions and inactions with regard to environmental sanitation will be detrimental not only to people in authority, but to all mankind and hence the need for all hands to be on deck as a matter of urgency.” In his welcome address, the Tema Zonal Manager of Zoomlion Mr. George Aguadze explained that, the series of environmental sanitation programmes being rolled out by Zoomlion are all part of the company’s commitment to ensuring that good environmental sanitation and personal hygiene are understood and practiced by individuals in every community”. Mr. Abdul Malik Amegashie, District Environmental Health Officer for the Kpone Katamanso Area said that, most of sicknesses reported at hospitals are environmentally related diseases such as cholera, dysentery and the like and thus urged the people to partake in frequent clean up exercises to avoid the outbreak of communicable diseases. He also called for the strict enforcement of sanitation by-laws without fear or favour. “When people commit environmental sanitation offenses, the law must be allowed to take its due course irrespective of the person’s socio-political affiliations and economic status. In such a manner, every Ghanaian, whoever he or she may be, will learn to respect the environment”, Mr. Amegashie opined. The Communications Manager of Zoomlion Mrs. Isabella Gyau Orhin expressed her heartfelt gratitude to the people of Adjei Kojo for the support Zoomlion had enjoyed from them since its inception and reiterated the company’s commitment to the people of Adjei Kojo in helping them to live in a clean and healthy environment. She expressed the hope that all the issues that have been raised and discussed at the durbar will be put into immediate practice by the people so as to bring visible change in their sanitation behaviour. She further called for greater cooperation from the entire community to enable Zoomlion attain its goal of ridding the whole country completely of filth and making Ghana the number one tourism destination in Africa.