Add sanitation studies in school curricula

The Accra zonal supervisor of Zoomlion,Mr Robert Coleman,has called on the government to consider including sanitation studies in the educational curriculum, especially at the basic level.
This, he said, would be a great step towards a comprehensive and pragmatic way of addressing the ever increasing spate of sanitation challenges in the country.
Mr Coleman made the call after the company deployed over 400 workers to clean the Independence Square after the May Day celebration last Friday.
He said Zoomlion had achieved a lot in the area of sanitation in the country “but efforts must be made to ensure that the up and coming generation is properly oriented on the issues of sanitation”.
Mr Coleman expressed gratitude to President Mills for his resolve to address sanitation challenges, and added that within his first 100 days, Zoomlion cleared huge backlogs of refuse all over the country.
“Today, we do not have the heaps of refuse we used to see before and Zoomlion is on course to help the president and the entire citizenry to attain a better life by helping to keep the country clean,” he stated.
He said with the company’s heavy trucks and machinery, they would continue to ensure that Ghana was clean.
Mr Coleman called for speed in the development of procedures that would lead to the reintroduction of sanitation officers and the creation of sanitation courts to prosecute people who abused the society and broke sanitation rules.