ZOIL Services, a subsidiary of Zoomlion, a waste management company, has inaugurated a 60-member eco-brigade unit at Donkokrom, capital of the Kwahu North District (Afram Plains) to protect the banks of lakes and rivers in the district.
The unit formed part of a 10,000 labour force being engaged by Zoomlion throughout the country to clean beaches of the country’s coastline, lakes and banks of rivers to preserve the ecosystem.
The inauguration of the unit, which coincided with the visit to the district by President John Evans Atta Mills last week, is expected to go a long way in protecting the shoreline of the Afram and Volta Lakes in the district.
President Mills in his address to the gathering said his administration had put in the necessary measures to boost sectors such as agriculture, education, health, transportation and the environment in the area.
The President also gave the assurance that pontoon services, the only means by which all types of vehicles and passengers from other parts of the country could cross the Afram Lake to the area, would be improved with all the safety measures.
The Minister of Food and Agriculture, Mr Kwesi Ahwoi, said fodder banks would be established in the district for Fulani herds so that the cattle would no longer destroy foodstuffs.
The Eastern Regional Minister, Mr Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, said his outfit would give the necessary assistance to the district assembly to properly cater for the communities, and therefore, called on the people to cooperate with members of the eco-brigade.
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