National Service Personnel urged to act as agents of change – University of Cape Coast

Upcoming national service personnel who will be posted to the field in September 2017 were urged to act as agents of change as they perform their duties.  The appeal was made by the Chief Executive Officer of Shape Attitude Ghana, Mr Wonderful Baisie Ghartey, at a pre-service orientation organised by the Central Regional Secretariat of the National Service Scheme at the University of Cape Coast on 7th April 2017.

Mr Ghartey’s appeal was in relation to maintaining good sanitary conditions in our surroundings and made reference to the indiscriminate littering and disposal of refuse as well as open defaecation. He attributed these bad practices to poor behaviour of persons within communities. Mr. Ghartey urged the potential service personnel to play a role in changing it by engaging themselves in awareness and sensitisation campaigns wherever they find themselves. They should also show good example by adopting good sanitary practices.

The prospective service personnel were reminded that resources that are spent on providing health care for diseases caused by poor sanitary conditions and clearing the mess caused by littering could be spent on providing social infrastructure for the development and advancement of country.

More than two thousand prospective service personnel were present at the orientation. Also present were personnel from Headquarters of the National Service Secretariat (Mrs Emma Hammond, the PRO, Deputy Director of Finance and Administration and the Central Regional Director of the Scheme). Others were from the Ghana Education Service and the University of Cape Coast.