As soon as you step foot on Dormaa’s land, one of the most important things you’ll notice is how clean the city is.
The Greater Accra Region’s residents are quite unfamiliar with this since the traditional area’s overlord, Osagyefo Oseadeeyo Dr. Nana Agyemang Badu II, is committed to keeping his domain clean at all times.
Osagyefo Oseadeeyo Dr. Nana Agyeman Badu II said in an interview on The Lowdown on GhanaWeb TV that he was motivated to do so by Nana Ahunabobrim Prah Agyensaim VI, the traditional chief of Assin Kushia, who oversees the cleanest town in the Central Region.
The Dormaahene stated that it is wise to emulate good deeds, which is why he placed trash cans in strategic locations like Assin Kushia.
“I’ve heard so much about his town that it is the neatest town and in one of my celebrations; I think 22nd or 23rd anniversary on the stool, I had cause to commend him for having chalked that feat.
“So ever since, maybe two or three years, I decided to emulate him to see how I can also lead my people to bring sanitation to their doorsteps to help clean our environment, weed, ensure that we put dustbins and clean our surroundings so, yes, yes. We’ve been doing that. It’s not easy. We’ve gone through about 200 of our towns and still counting, we are still doing it.
“Like I already said, we emulated Assin Kushia. We saw Nana Prah Agyensaim has put dustbins at vantage points and we decided to emulate him. When you see someone is doing a good you know, viable project, you will try to emulate and see how best you can imbibe into your environment.
“So, everywhere that you go, it’s not only in Dormaa Ahenkro, everywhere within the 200 towns and still counting, we make sure that we provide them with dustbins. We put them at the vantage points.
“We ensure that we provide some black bags at their disposal so that some of these rubbers, polythene bags and the small small things we want to litter around, we can put them in. So, that we have a safe and clean environment,” Nana Agyeman Badu II told Daniel Oduro on The Lowdown.
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The Dormaahene discusses a variety of themes and subjects that are popular in Ghanaian mainstream and social media in an exclusive interview with GhanaWeb TV.