AUCC cleanup exercise: SRC President Ernest Kpebu leads way

President of the Students’ Representative Council (SRC) of the African University College of Communications (AUCC), Kpebu Ernest showed the way by leading a team of students and management of the University to clean up the Adabraka market and its environment last Friday, October 14, 2022.

The presence of the SRC President, who is well known for championing sanitation issues, attracted a section of the market women who joined in their numbers to rid the market venue of filth.

The exercise was organized as part of the School’s 20 years anniversary celebration.

Exercise

In the early hours of Friday, the students and University management assembled in front of the market place, cleared choked gutters and swept the shoulders of the principal streets.

They later moved to the main market where they cleared choked drains and volumes of rubbish that had littered the entire surrounding.

The students conveyed the heaps of refuse in dust bins to the refuse dump.

When the team arrived at the market venue, it was observed that the entire place was littered with polythene and paper bags, while some heaps of rubbish were left unattended to.

It was also observed that there were no dust bins at the place for the market women and their customers to dispose of rubbish.

The SRC President expressed worry about the situation and called on authorities to as a matter of urgency allocate bins to ensure proper disposal and management of waste in the metropolis.

Satisfaction, commendation

Professor Abeiku Blankson, the President of AUCC expressed satisfaction with the exercise and said it would go a long way to whip up the market women and residents’ interest in ensuring proper sanitation.

He indicated that the exercise would be done on regular basis to maintain good sanitation at the market venue and its surroundings.

Mr. Ernest Kpebu thanked all the students and University management for turning out in their numbers to participate in the exercise.

He said keeping the environment clean was a shared responsibility, for which reason all must prioritize issues of sanitation in their respective areas.

The Registrar of AUCC, Dr. Julian Owusu-Ansah on her part said the University had established a scholarship scheme for students who lived in the Adabraka community to help them achieve their dreams.

“The scholarship is gender balanced. The management of the University has decided that at least two boys and two girls will be selected for every academic year. You need to be a member of the Adabraka community, you should have gone through high school and completed, you should be brilliant student and at least should be contributing to the community, this is solely for the Adabraka community” she said.

The Queen mother of the Adabraka community, Naa Korkor Asdzieoyi 1, commended the University for the gesture and encouraged the traders to enroll their wards in the University.