We Must Be Each Other’s Keeper To Curb Environmental Indiscipline – MCE For Okaikwei North Advice

Municipal Chief Executive for Okaikwei North Municipality, Hon. Boye Laryea has urged Ghanaians to have the vision of leaving in excellence according to municipal model to support government to bring the needed development to the area.

He mentioned some of the municipal indiscipline as dumping of refuse indiscriminately, open defecation, indiscipline on the road among others.

“We must be each other’s keeper to perfect environmental problems hazard which spend most of government resources which could be used for other developmental plans” he lamented.

He made these comments when the Okaikwei North Municipal Assembly as part of its 2018 -2021 Medium Term Development Plan (MTDP) held the first (1st) Community Engagement on the 13thand 14th September, 2018 respectively to solicit for developmental issues from the eleven (11) electoral areas within the Municipality under which they work.

At the programme, the Municipal Planning Officer, Ms. Ophelia Aryere took members through the procedures of activities outlined to sustain the project.

She elaborated that the community engagement was basically to solicit for the needs and aspirations of stakeholders from the various electoral areas and how to address their concerns.

The major problems that emanated from the electoral areas at the workshop included insanitary conditions, poor road network, lack of market and lorry stations, malfunctioning of streetlight at certain areas, inadequate health facilities and the likes.