Bolgatanga MCE targets cleaner city, improved livelihoods
The Bolgatanga Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Mr Roland Atanga Ayoo, has reaffirmed his commitment to making the municipality clean, improving livelihoods, and promoting inclusive growth.
He said efforts to achieve the municipality’s development agenda could be undermined if sanitation challenges were not addressed.
Mr Ayoo made the remarks during an engagement with selected stakeholders on key development projects undertaken within his one year in office.
On sanitation, he outlined progress made so far, attributing it to regular clean-up exercises held on the first Saturday of every month under the government’s “Clean Ghana Agenda”.
He recalled that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government, led by President John Dramani Mahama, relaunched the National Sanitation Day initiative in January 2025 upon assuming office.
The programme, he explained, aimed to place greater responsibility on local authorities while empowering communities through monthly, legally backed clean-up exercises.
“Regular clean-up exercises have been intensified, and so far, 11 have been conducted since May 2025. A number of sanitary tools have also been procured to enhance efforts towards a clean environment,” he stated.
Mr Ayoo added that waste management systems had been strengthened through collaboration with private service providers.
He disclosed that 13 refuse heaps had been cleared and transported to the final disposal site at Sherigu, where waste had also been pushed, levelled and access roads created.
He said public education on proper sanitation practices was ongoing through radio programmes, routine inspections and sensitisation by the Municipal Environmental Health and Sanitation Unit.
The MCE cautioned residents against undermining the Assembly’s efforts to eliminate filth, warning that sanitation by-laws would soon be strictly enforced in line with the Local Governance Act, 2016 (Act 936).
On infrastructure, Mr Ayoo said several projects in the areas of health, education, agriculture, roads and water were at various stages of completion to improve living conditions in the municipality.
In the education sector, he announced the completion of a fully furnished three-unit classroom block for the Kolgu-Agusi Junior High School.
The facility includes an ICT laboratory, library, staff room, store, head teacher’s office, a four-seater toilet facility and a two-unit urinal.
Other ongoing projects, he said, include the construction of a culvert at Sumbrungu-Nayire, a kindergarten block and a health centre at Anateem, a three-unit classroom block at Nyariga Primary School, a two-unit KG block at Yorogo-Gaabisi, and the rehabilitation of a Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) compound at Daporetindongo.
He noted that the projects were funded through the District Assembly Common Fund (DACF) with support from development partners.
Mr Ayoo commended the security agencies for maintaining relative peace in the municipality and pledged continued collaboration to uphold law and order, particularly in tackling illicit drug peddling and armed robbery.
He also urged residents to volunteer information on criminal activities to enable the police to act swiftly.
FROM FRANCIS DABRE DABANG, BOLGATANGA
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