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Damak Sanitation Health Watch in collaboration with the International Direct Project (IDP) from Switzerland has organized sanitation and health awards for selected assembly members and chiefs in eight districts in the Ashanti Region.
The awards were honored based on the performance of the individual participants after we conducted a pilot program using Google Digital Address Codes (GDAC) to monitor the performance of the selected communities on a specific selected object such as chocked gutters, littering in the marketplace, lorry terminals, etc., and especially the individual commitment towards sanitation issues in their communities.
The award winners were rated based on their performance. The overall winner of the first edition of the Damak-IDP Sanitation Community Heroes & Excellence Award 2023 is Mr. Ernest Okai, the Assembly Member for the Asafo Electoral Area in the Kumasi Metropolitan in the Ashanti Region. He scored 73.5% out of 100% among the ten (10) participants. Two chiefs could not make it.
Speaking during the program, the Director for Damak Sanitation Health Watch, Daniel Mbabugri Akgri said, the event aimed to ensure how the outfit can also contribute its quota toward keeping the cities clean thus, they decided to conduct a Google digital address codes to monitor the performs of the selected communities.
Even though, it was challenging to make the people buy into the idea since it was a new system we intended to adopt… we were able to achieve our intended purpose.
Mr. Mbabugri went on to appeal to the government through the Ministry of Sanitation to ensure the waste levy is being used judiciously where a small portion of the Levy can be allocated directly to assembly members to use in providing sanitation services to the communities.
I would like to say a big thanks to Pierre P. Petitjean, the CEO of IDPa friend and a partner from Switzerland for his contributions towards the achievement of this project.
On his part, the overall winner, Hon. Ernest Okai, assemblyman for the Asafo Electoral Area thanked the organizers for the kind gesture and went ahead to appeal to colleague assembly members not to let guard of their efforts to ensure their electoral areas are periodically clean.
“Since I became assemblyman, today is the second time I have been awarded for my good work done and I employ everyone to help assembly members in their quest of providing sanitation service to the communities”.
The chief of Aputuogya, Nana Asakyem Kwakye Agyeman II also received an award for keeping his community clean. Decades of refuse dump which was a problem confronting the community health was cleared by Nana Asakyem Kwaye Agyeman.
Speaking to the media after the program, he urged assembly members and all sundry to let sanitation issues be their hallmark.
