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Mr. Joseph Dofoyena, Ahanta West District Chief Executive, on Friday, called on communities to undertake regular clean-up exercises to keep their areas clean, adding environmental cleanliness is a collective responsibility. Mr. Dofoyena made the call when he launched the 2014 Kundum Festival of the chiefs and people of the Lower Dixcove Traditional Area at Dixcove. The theme for the festival is: �Sustaining the environment for development and healthy life.� He said waste management was taking a bulk of the financial resources of the district assembly at the expense of earmarked development projects. Mr. Dofoyena urged communities to whip up their communal spirit and undertake clean up exercises to support the district assembly�s waste management efforts. He said communal labour had not been cancelled, and that it was an offence for one to dodge it. Mr. Dofoyena said the District Assembly would form committees in communities to enforce its bye-laws on communal labour. He urged the people to pay their property rates to enable the District Assembly undertake more development projects. Mr. Enoch Kojo Appiah, Shama District Chief Executive, who represented the Western Regional Minister, Mr. Paul Evans Aidoo, spoke of the importance of sanitation. He said people litter the environment indiscriminately due to indiscipline, and asked the people of Dixcove to endeavour to keep the environment clean in the run up to the Kundum festival, in order to attract people from far and near. Mr. Appiah said the Kundum festival must unite people to support the government, the District Assembly and the Omanhene, Nana Kwesi Agyeman IX, to develop the area. He called on parents and the communities to assist to reverse the falling standard of education in the area. Nana Appiah Kubi II, Chief of Ajomoro Eshiem, asked the people to remain resolute and continue to give out their best to facilitate national development. Nana Kwesi Agyeman, who is also the Vice President of the Western Regional House of Chiefs, said the festival would be used for stock-taking and the planning of development projects.