Keep Kumasi Clean To Enhance The Celebration Of Asantehene’s 150th Anniversary Of Sagrenti War – 2006 National Best Taxi Drivers Award Winner To Residents.
In his quest to ensure that visitors who would take part and grace the Asantehene’s 150th anniversary program to feel at home, Mr.Julius Caesar Amoah who doubles as the Vice Chairman for the Kumasi Sofoline Super Branch of the Ghana Private Roads & Transport Union (GPRTU) has sounded a word of advise to the residents of Kumasi to ensure keeping the city clean.
Speaking to the correspondent King Amoah in an exclusive interview, Mr Amoah who is also the 2006 National Best Taxi Drivers’ Award Winner observed that the 150th anniversary of Asantehene is an important occasion that would attract not only the local dignitaries but also visitors from the foreign countries.
Therefore considering the number of distinguished personalities who would attend the program, Mr Amoah said the residents need to prioritize environmental issues in the city to march the city’s former status dubbed, ‘garden city’.
According to Mr Amoah who also served as a Tourist Ambassador for two consecutive years across the country in 2006 following his prestigious award, charged drivers, especially those who operate taxi cars to lead in a crusade to educate passengers who pollute the city with waste materials like satchet water among others to refrain from the act.
That was not all, chairman Amoah further advised traders to take advantage of the anniversary to keep the market areas clean at all times.
As he believes, clean environment promotes good health and also speaks about ones behavior.
Kumasi is a popular city and known across the global scene, therefore it is the collective responsibility for all the residents in Kumasi to keep the city clean during and after the occasio, Mr Amoah pointed out.
He stressed that out quest to promote proper environmental cleanliness would gain us credit from the strangers who would fraternize themselves with us to grace the occasion.
In other words, if we disgrace ourselves, we loose our reputation at the global level, the transporter asserted.
Concluding, he advised drivers to avoid shabby dressings whilst at work, remain obedient to passengers especially the strangers and comply with professional ethics to help make the Asantehene’s anniversary a peaceful and successful one.