Vice President of the Republic of Ghana, H.E. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang has offered a cash support of GH¢20,000 to the Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly (CCMA) in its solemn fight on sanitation to eradicate the metropolis' engulfed filth. 

The veep's financial support follows a post Fetu Afahye clean-up exercise held over the weekend by CCMA, which saw revered political figures like the Central Regional Minister and the Cape Coast Mayor actively participating.

H.E. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang at the back of the donation, shares a soft spot for market women within the Cape Coast Metropolis, following her years of engagements with them, having lived virtually her entire life at the ancient capital and has come to terms with the ordeal traders are exposed to on sanitation, thus her donation to have much attention shifted towards that end.

Hon. Ekow Panyin Eduamoah Okyere, the Central Regional Minister, who on behalf of H.E. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang made the donation on Saturday, September 27, highlighted the Vice President's unflinching lookout for the health and safety of traders within the metropolis.

Therefore, her instruction to use part of the money to get disinfectants, wheelbarrows, and other valuable items capable to have markets in the area hygienic enough for customers and market women to trade, laying much focus on the Kotokuraba market.

She appealed to the Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly not to make clean-ups at market centres a one-off event, but a consistent exercise to necessitate the safe environment it seeks to achieve.

The Vice President again urged the citizenry to make a consented effort towards personal hygiene, by keeping their surroundings clean and not dump refuse anyhow in other to beat down government's spending on waste management for developmental projects to thrive.

Mayor for Cape Coast, Hon. George Justice Arthur who was at the receiving end, thanked the Vice President for her kind gesture together with the Regional Minister for his active participation to the Cape Coast clean-up exercise. Adding that the donation will go a long way to purchase important items needed in the Assembly's fight on sanitation.

Sompaonline.com//Eric Annan