The Determined Youth against Poverty (DYAP) has launched an intensive clean-up campaign to give Monrovia and its environs a facelift before the inauguration of the President-elect, Ambassador Joseph N. Boakai.
According to the Acting Executive Director of DYAP, Sekou Sheriff, the clean-up campaign is intended to buttress government to get dirt from street corners along the major streets in Monrovia and its environs.
Director Sheriff made the disclosure Wednesday when the process started at the 72nd intersection in Paynesville, outskirts Monrovia.
He indicated that the clean-up campaign which has been initiated by DYAP is on a voluntary basis, and this will go a long way in cleaning Monrovia and its environs.
He explained that young Liberians taking initiative to help clean up the city will prevent communicable diseases from spreading and affecting community dwellers.
Director Sheriff said from now the process of cleaning the city will continue on a daily basis until after the inauguration, then the process will be done two times in a month to ensure that Monrovia is clean.
He pointed out that currently the city of Monrovia is dirty, to the extent that they cannot sit on the fence and watch Monrovia continue to be the dirtiest city in the world, but to initiate this clean-up campaign.
Director Sheriff underscored that the clean-up campaign has been funded through assistance from the National Old Folks of Liberia (NOFOL), but hope to get support from other organizations and prominent Liberians.
Meanwhile, the Executive Director of NOFOL, Momo Allison Bainda, said the assistance to DYAP is for the group to buttress the government’s effort. Director Bainda stated that cleaning the capital city should be commended and supported by all meaningful Liberians.
He asserted that the city of Monrovia and its environs cannot be dirty and the citizens continue to close their eyes to this reality.