Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Abena Dapaah has stated her ministry’s efforts in fighting open defecation across the country have yielded positive results within a short time in office.
According to the minister, the Sustainable Rural Water and Sanitation project has provided targeted communities with 12,972 household toilets.
The project, among other interventions she explained, has aided various communities to attain open-defecation-free status.
In 2015, Ghana was ranked second by WASH after Sudan in Africa for open defecation. Most households were identified without a proper toilet facility. Failure on the part of landlords to construct houses without washrooms, among other factors has facilitated the practice of open defecation.
Sanitation Minister, Cecilia Abena Dapaah, announced at a Press Briefing on Tuesday, December 3, 2019, that the country’s vision of attaining an open-defecation-free status was on a good course. The ministry, while addressing the press, stated the achievements of the Ministry of Sanitation.
“The ministry through the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA) Sanitation and Water project has also within the project period constructed 26,000 household toilets benefitting about 180,000 low-income communities. Under the same project, 260 beneficiary schools have been provided with toilet facilities to benefit 200,000 school children,” the minister stated.
According to Cecilia Dapaah, during her 3-month-tour in Accra and some parts of the country, she observed that the issue of water, sanitation, and hygiene was still a major challenge. She called for the attitudinal change among sanitation offenders adding that the National Sanitation laws will prosecute persons who breach sanitation laws
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NPP IS FOUND THROWING FIGURES WITHOUT CONCRETE EXAMPLES. WHERE ARE THOSE 12,972 TOILETS SITED WHEN IN ACCRA ITSELF, THE NATIONS CAPITAL, IS FULL OF OPEN-DEFECATION HAPPENING EVERY MINUTE. GO TO JAMES TOWN, CHORKOR, KORLE GONNO JUST TO MENTION A FEW AND SEE FOR YOURSELF. IN THE MORNINGS AND EVENINGS WHEN YOU SEE PEOPLE (MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN) MOVING TOWARDS THE BEACHES IT IS NOT TO SEE THE SEA WHICH THEY ARE ALREADY USED TO SEEING, BUT TO ATTEND TO NATURE'S CALL. AS SIMPLE AS THAT. A VERY COMMON SCENE EVERY DAY. THAT IS THE SITUATION EVEN IN THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT.
WE SAW A LOT ABOUT THIS WOMAN WHEN SHE WAS IN CHARGE OF AVIATION. WHEN SHE WAS AT AVIATION GHANA FEATURED PROMINENTLY IN THAT SECTOR. GHNANA WAS CONSIDERED TO BECOME THE MAGAZINE OR THE GARAGE FOR AIRCRAFT IN WEST AFRICA. SINCE SHE LEFT AVIATION WE HAVE NOT HEARD ABOUT THE PROJECT AND OTHER INITIATIVES AGAIN. SHE WAS MOVED TO WATER AND SANITATION AND HERE AGAIN WATER AND SANITATION COME TO LIME LIGHT. SHE IS TRULY A HARD WORKING WOMAN.BRAVO MY SISTER. POP