Waste management giant, Zoomlion Ghana Limited, has begun 10-days fumigation exercise across all public Senior High Schools (SHS), including private and special schools, in the Ashanti region.
The exercise seeks to purge the schools from pests, bacterial, bedbugs and rodents among others from the schools.
The project began with 10 selected schools including Prempeh College, Kumasi Wesley girls, Jachie Pramso SHS, Saint Louis SHS, Kumasi high SHS, Anglican SHS, Aduman SHS in Afigya Kwabre South, Saint Michael SHS in Afigya Kwabre North, Ejisuman SHS in the Ejisu Municipality and Kofi Agyei SHS in the Kwabre East district.
The exercise commenced on Friday, April 17, 2020, and is expected to be completed on April 27, 2020.
The exercise, according to company officials, is an initiative of the Education Ministry which has nothing to do with the fight against the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
Addressing journalists during the exercise at Prempeh College, the Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei Mensah, commended the Chairman of Zoomlion Ghana Limited, Dr. Joseph Siaw Agyapong, for his contribution to the government in the fight against coronavirus across the country with fumigation exercise in the various markets at a subsidized rate.
to government as the patriotic son of Ghana.
“I must confess that, the Dr. Joseph Siaw Agyapong Zoomlion is a true patriotic son of Ghana. He has indeed proven his patriotic nature beyond reasonable argument that he really care about this nation in this trial time as Ghana joins the world to fight the coronavirus. The fumigation exercise that we are currently undertaking is being done at a very low subsidized rate. The exercise being conducted in the schools by the Ministry of Education is free of charge”, he noted.
The Regional Minister commenting further, pleaded with students not to eat any of the food items they left in their chop boxes, particularly, gari and sugar which was not properly kept in canned container to avoid infection from the chemical used for the exercise.
The Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Prof. Kwabena Frimpong Boateng, on his part said it has become imperative for the fumigation exercises to be conducted in the schools and market centres to prevent those places to be breeding grounds for diseases.
