Thursday, January 31, 2008

WEST AKYEM RETRIEVES INCANDESCENT BULBS (Page 28)

Story: A. Kofoya-Tetteh, Asamankese

AN exercise to retrieve and destroy incandescent electric bulbs in the West Akyem District of the Eastern Region has begun at Asamankese with the destruction of 1,750 of those bulbs.
Under the exercise, which was conducted under the personal supervision of the District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr Kwabena Sintim-Aboagye, energy-saving electric bulbs were given out freely in exchange for the incandescent bulbs in a number of communities.
According to the DCE, the rationale behind the exercise was to ensure that only energy-saving bulbs were used in the district to help conserve energy, especially at this time of the year when the level of water in the Akosombo Dam continued to fall.
Mr Sintim-Aboagye, who said the exercise would cover all parts of the district, appealed to the people to co-operate for its successful implementation.
In another development, the staff of the West Akyem District Assembly, with the support of Zoomlion Ghana Limited, a private waste management company, has engaged in an exercise to clear Asamankese, the district capital, of filth.
The exercise, which was also led by the DCE and the District Employment Co-ordinator, Mr Daniel Ankoma Nti, witnessed the clearing of choked gutters and sweeping of other areas in the town, especially the market area.
Speaking after the exercise, Mr Sintim-Aboagye said it would be conducted periodically to make the town clean to attract foreign visitors, especially those currently in the country for the Ghana 2008 soccer fiesta, because of its proximity to Accra and also to befit its status as an emerging municipality.
The DCE expressed his appreciation to President J.A. Kufuor for upgrading the district into a municipality and gave the assurance that the assembly would do its best to ensure that the area become one of the cleanest municipalities in the country.

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