Adaklu is not a safe haven for environmental degradation – DCE

Mr Ameko entreated Environmental Health Officers operating in the district to rigidly enforce the Assembly’s sanitation bylaws no matter whose ox was gored.

He called on Assembly members, traditional and religious leaders to be proactive and put community-embedded mechanisms in place to safeguard the neatness of their communities, rivers and wetlands He intimated that when communities were engulfed with filth and rivers polluted, communities suffered and generations compromised Mr Ameko who is also the Dean of Volta region MDCEs, reminded the Blue Water Guards operating in the district that their work would not only be measured by the arrests they made or the reports they filed but also by the clearer streams and healthier ecosystems.

Mr Ameko called on residents of the district to see environmental protection as a shared civic responsibility rather than an isolated governmental intervention.