Walking Is Good Physical Exercise – KMA Coordinating Director
Mr Francis Dwira-Darko KMA Coordinating Director (second left), as well as some staff of the Assembly participating in.last Saturday’s walk
Mr Francis Dwira-Darko, the Metro Coordinating Director for the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has underscored the importance of physical or bodily exercise.
Speaking to this reporter during a walk organised by the Assembly on Saturday morning, Mr Dwira-Darko said brisk walking as well as other bodily exercises have been noted to keep many illnesses and diseases away.
He stated any individual that cultivates a consistent lifestyle of physical exercise would keep the doctor way.
“Research has shown that anyone who observes a lifestyle of exercising the body at all times lives longer and keeps many diseases such as hypertension and high blood pressure away”, the Coordinating Director posited.
Participants:
Hon Abraham Boadi, Assembly Member for the Nhyiaeso electoral area commended the KMA Chief Executive for instituting the routine walk by the Assembly.
He noted that such periodic health exercises would help to keep workers and staff of the Assembly in good shape at all times.
Kwame Asamoah, a resident at Asafo who joined the walk at the labour roundabout said he has always taken part in such physical activity every time he gets the opportunity.
He disclosed that after suffering from high blood pressure the doctor advised that he keeps his body in shape by engaging in some physical exercises.
Routes:
Starting from the precincts of the KMA offices, the over hundred staff and workers began the walk with a rigours aerobics by the officers from the Army.
Clad in the KMA walk designed t-shirts, the participants walked from the KMA offices by using the Asafo Market route through to the labour roundabout.
The team then took the Asafo Post office route and joined the stretch to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Building where they used the Baba Yara Sports stadium street and walked through the Amakom stretch meandering their way to the Asokwa route.
Singing some Christian “jama” songs amidst brass band music that followed, the swelling crowd meandered their way back through the Asokwa bypass through to Ahodwo roundabout and then took the stretch leading to the Ridge Police station and headed towards the KMA offices and by 9am the team had arrived at the precincts of the Assembly for the closing stage of the aerobics and later crowned the walk with some fluids refreshment following afterwards.
Source: Ghana/otecfmghanan.com /Michael Ofosu-Afriyie, Kumasi.
