JJ Rawlings
Accra, Jan. 4 — Former President of Ghana, Jerry John Rawlings has called on Ghanaians to devote some time to deal with the sanitation situation in the country next year.
This commitment he said was necessary to curb the incidence of typhoid outbreak in the country.
Speaking at the wreath-laying ceremony at the Revolution Square to mark the 31st Anivessary of the 31 December 1981 Revolution, Flt Lt Rawlings urged that if Ghanaians had commit a little more energy to the fighting of the unsanitary and unhygienic situation in the country in order to deal with the diseases associated with filth.
“I would like to use this occasion to appeal to Ghanaians that if we can brace ourselves to do the things we want to do in 2013, then we should commit a little more energy to the fighting of the unsanitary and unhygienic situation in the country,” former President Rawlings urged.
Typhoid, according to Rawlings should not have been so rampant in Ghana as it had become, but for the unhygienic conditions.
Flt. Lt Rawlings then narrated how his wife, former First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings returned from a trip not too long ago and started complaining of sickness which turned out to be typhoid.
“No one is safe from typhoid because there is so much fluidity and interaction among us. Let us do everything possible to contain this scourge. We don’t need it,” he called.
He lamented about how the gains that had been made in the past were , according to him, reversed under the Kufuor regime, a situation he believed President John Evans Atta Mills should have reversed.
“He was optimistic that President Mahama’s government would be able to do something about the unsanitary situation in the country.
“I pray that God provides President Mahama with the wisdom to pick men and women of integrity to man his administration and the courage to ‘prevent leeches, parasites, thieves and liars from taking refuge” in his government,” President Rawlings Rawlings said, wishing the president well as he prepares to be sworn into office as Ghana’s next president and head of the sixth government of Ghana’s fourth Republic.
Source: Justice Lee Adoboe
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