Bono Region ends market disinfection exercise with massive cleanup exercise

The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, through the Bono Regional Coordinating Council has ended the markets disinfection exercise in the region with a massive cleanup exercise.

The exercise which begun early in the morning saw all the central business centres, police stations, post office, poly roundabout and the three markets as well as other public areas being cleaned up by Zoomlion’s sanitation officers with support from the military, the police and the fire service.

According to the Municipal Chief Executive, Honourable Awo Owusu-Banahene Jestina, Sunyani is poised for cleanliness and Covid-19 is reinforcing its neatness. She however urged that society should not sit down for diseases to attack before cleaning the environment to improve health.

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She noted that the municipality is strictly adhering to the all the preventive protocols hinting that before reopening of the schools for final year students, children between ages 2-16 were not allowed to come out and parents of offenders were prosecuted.

Again, the municipality has set up a Corona market to help control the spread of the virus. She explained that the municipality agreed to use the stadium, Sunyani Coronation Park, as a temporal market with well spaced structures to ensure physical and social distancing among the traders as well as buyers.

“…to ensure spacing, we used the Coronation Park as an interim market and christened it corona market,” she stated.

The MCE observed that the military have been very helpful during this period adding that the presence of the joint patrol team of military, police, immigration has even led to a reduction in crime rate in the municipality.

To motivate the security forces, the MCE said she provides lunch to the patrol team daily. She commended the Omanhene of Sunyani Traditional Area, Nana Bosoma Asor Nkrawiri II, who donated GHc10,000 to support the fight against Covid-19 in the municipality. She therefore called for others to emulate the act and support the region to get rid of the virus.

Honourable Awo, as popularly called, expressed gratitude to the joint security forces and Zoomlion for undertaking the cleanup exercise.