Herbert Mensah blames media, politicians for loss of environmental consciousness in Ghana
Mr Herbert Mensah, President of Ghana Rugby Football Union, has expressed worry about fallen values and the loss of sense of environmental consciousness in the society.
He blamed the media and politicians for not helping the country by whipping up awareness on good sanitation practices.
Mr Mensah, who is also a former Chief Executive Officer of Asante Kotoko who led about 100 rugby football players to clear filth at Ridge on the National Sanitation Day, said the time has come for the media to put the country first on higher standards and expose politicians who engage in wrong doings.
He said little things like littering the environment and increasingly vitriolic and partisan nature of politics are issues which the people expect the media to highlight daily.
He called on the media to engage in responsible reportage as their mandate towards ensuring that politicians are exposed of their corrupt practices and selfish interests.
“What the people want to hear is what the politicians are capable of doing for Ghana to uplift the living standards of the people but not a mistake a party had committed in the past,” he said.
Mr Mensah said: “I have personally paid school fees for some dependents of the people who lost their lives during the May 9 stadium disaster,” adding: “Ask the politicians what they did with the billions they collected on behalf of the victims.”
He said the past and the present governments had achieved nothing and had also failed the nation and asked the people to reject them.
Mr Michael Ako Wilson, President of the Ghana Rugby Union Players Association told Ghana News Agency that “cleanup is not only a national course but a good platform for us to eliminate cholera in our midst.”
He said the country’s efforts to maintain environmental cleanliness would be enhanced if the youth take up the responsibility to clean up their environment frequently and preach good sanitation where they find themselves.
Source: GNA