The La Dade-Kotopon Municipal Assembly, LaDMA organised two days training programme for the environmental health and sanitation officers operating in the municipality to improve on the state of environmental health and sanitation issues militating against the municipality. The training held at the Municipal Assembly Conference room on Tuesday March 29, 2022 and ended on Wednesday March 30, 2022.
Addressing the participants, Mr Daniel Nkrumah (Coordinating director of LaDMA) said the EHOs, and EHAs owned the responsibilities to ensure that the municipality is clean. He said the training was to sharpen the skills of participants in delivery of their routine tasks, by enforcing environmental standards and regulations in the municipality.
Engineer Lukman Yahya Salifu, Mr Maxwell Opoku Agyeman, Esq, and Engineer Evans Darko Mensah from Messrs WasteCare Associates, an environmental sanitation consultancy firm, facilitated the training.
The training was to equip the participants with the skills of principles of basic law and procedure for prosecuting environmental health and sanitation offences, monitoring and evaluation techniques and report writing. Engineer Lukman Yahya Salifu schooled the participants on report writing on environmental health and sanitation services. Mr Maxwell Agyeman took the participants through Basic training in environmental health and sanitation prosecution whiles Engineer Evans Darko Mensah took the participants through environmental monitoring and evaluation (M&E) for EHOs and EHAs
Participants were drawn from EHOs/ EHAs made up of fifteen females and ten males. Participants expressed their appreciation to the directorates, for organising the training.