On Thursday, June 16, 2022, a book including advice and strategies to assist communities in fast eradicating environmental problems was launched in Accra.
Apostle Samuel Edii Davidson published the book, titled 'Community Transformation Through Environmental Care Campaign,' after receiving a vision from God to bring about transformational change in the area of environmental sanitation.
The 137-page book offers a variety of strategies and answers to the different environmental issues that towns around the country face. Getting church leaders, Imams, assembly members, metropolitan, municipal, and district chief executives, students, and traders, among others, to inspire the public to embrace the Environmental Care campaign is one of the book's highlights.
It also underlines the need of innovative ideas in bridging the gap between the top and the bottom.
The book also discusses why Ghanaians must make a conscious effort to take control of any environment in which they find themselves and make it clean and healthy.
The book claims that the clarion cry to care for the environment was a wake-up call to all Ghanaians, regardless of religion or political affiliation, to make the "environment our duty."
The Mayor of Accra, Elizabeth Sackey, the Group Chairman of Tobinco Group of Companies, Dr. Samuel Amo Tobbin, the President of the Worldwide Miracle Outreach, Rev. Dr. Lawrence Tetteh, and a number of chiefs and queen mothers from the Greater Accra Region attended the book launch.
The Special Guest of Honour, Apostle Professor Agyapong Kodua, Vice Chancellor of the Pentecost University, addressed the crowd and praised Apostle Davidson for having the foresight to produce a "great book."
He called the book's publication opportune, saying it has "concrete environmental recipes of ways to handle our sanitation challenges in a timely manner."
He said that environmental protection was a community responsibility that should not be placed in the hands of the government or a few individuals or businesses.
That, he claimed, necessitated a shift of attitude on the side of every Ghanaian.
"Apostle Davidson has given the Ghanaian community and the rest of the globe a toolkit for eradicating our environmental problems quickly," he emphasized.
Prof. Kodua praised the administration for taking numerous steps to guarantee that Ghana is clean.
'Operation Clean Your Frontage,' he said, as well as 'Let's Make Accra Work,' among others.
He emphasized that "as citizens, we must make a conscious effort to protect our environment."
The Mayor of Accra, Elizabeth Sackey, emphasized the need of changing one's mindset, particularly when it comes to the environment.
As Christians, she stressed the need of "managing the environment not just for our own advantage but also for God's glory."
She stated that her organization has not backed down in its attempts to keep Accra clean.
As a result, she warned that sanitation violators in the capital city will be dealt with harshly by the laws.