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Former boss of National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) Hon. Isaac Amoh has chastised the Mahama-led administration for the declaration of the National Sanitation Day in the country. According to the Former Assemblyman, it is shameful for the NDC government to introduce the National Sanitation Day to compel Ghanaians to join in a nationwide clean-up exercise as all the necessary financial and physical structure provided in the constitution and the local government Act 462 have been neglected by the government. Speaking on Oman Fm�s National Agenda Morning Show, Hon. Isaac Amoh insisted that if the government is responsible in doing well in the provision of the 7.5 percent Common Fund for the Assemblies, there should have been no need for the Central Government to declare a day in the calendar to halt all productive activities in the country. �With all the necessary financial and physical structures, statistically provided in the Constitution and the Local Government Act 462; if the government is providing the 7.5 percent Common Fund and will responsibly adhere to it, there should have been no need for the Central Government to declare a day in our calendar that everybody should stop their productive activities to step out to clean their community�, he said. To him, the National Sanitation Day should be rather be declared as the National Day of Shame as it has to take President Mahama and his Vice and other dignitaries to descend into the gutters to demonstrate to Ghanaians the need to keep the environment clean. He stated that the government has failed in its statutory responsibility to release the quarterly funds to the Assemblies as the law has stipulated in the Constitution; adding that Ghanaians should rather demand from the government the accountability of taxes raised for the Assemblies for the purpose of cleaning the environment. �If we have given our resources, properties and funds to carry out this exercise and they have not done it, we have to ask for the money. The government should not compel us to abandon what we are doing to join in the clean up exercise; it is an illegal declaration to compel Ghanaians to honor National Sanitation Day�..it is a National Day of Shame; it is National Day of Irresponsibility; it is National Day of Irresponsible Governance. I don�t need to come out of my house because I clean my house�, he chided.