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Step aside, Aluguntugui. There is a fresh rhythm making waves, and it sounds remarkably like a broom gliding across a dusty street and a shovel clearing a clogged drain.
In a twist few on Ghana’s entertainment scene could have predicted, Joshua Kojo Ampah, better known as the energetic half of the celebrated hiplife duo Keche, has decided that the nation’s sanitation challenges deserve more than polite reminders and occasional community clean-ups. His prescription is bold, uncompromising, and impossible to ignore. A legally mandated national clean-up exercise every single week.
Yes, every week.
As Ghana continues its battle against mounting waste and overflowing drains, the “Skill Team” hitmaker has thrown his support behind the government’s latest sanitation campaigns. While recent exercises have featured politicians, actors, musicians, and other public figures rolling up their sleeves for highly publicized clean-up events, Joshua believes a once-in-a-while appearance with a broom is simply not enough. In his view, sanitation should become a national habit, as routine as attending church on Sunday or making weekend plans.
Joshua argues that Ghanaians need more than encouragement to break the habit of turning gutters into convenient dumping grounds. He believes discipline, backed by law, could be the missing ingredient. His reasoning is refreshingly straightforward. If people can dedicate hours to perfecting TikTok dance routines or passionately debating politics, they can certainly spare a few hours each week to tidy up their communities.
Not everyone in the entertainment industry is humming the same tune.
Media personality Efia Odo and others have argued that regular clean-up exercises, while helpful, amount to little more than a temporary fix. They insist Ghana’s sanitation problems demand lasting solutions through stronger waste management systems, improved infrastructure, and better enforcement, rather than relying on citizens to shoulder the burden every weekend.
Joshua, however, remains convinced that the nation needs to put its “skills” to work with wheelbarrows instead of dance moves. Whether the government embraces his vision of compulsory weekly clean-ups is anyone’s guess. One thing, however, seems certain. If Keche Joshua gets his wish, weekends in Ghana could feature far fewer lazy mornings and far more sweeping, shoveling, and reclaiming the nation’s streets, one neighborhood at a time.
