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Sunyani
to prosecute sanitation offenders
Sunyani, March 18, Ghanadot/GNA - Mr. Simon Opoku, Sunyani
Municipal Environmental Health Officer, on Wednesday said
residents who would flout sanitation laws in the municipality
would be prosecuted.
He said this when he briefed newsmen about the visit of a
three-member transitional task force team on waste management
and sanitation to assess the sanitation situation in the region.
The team has already been to Goaso, Techiman and Dormaa Ahenkro
and will proceed to Berekum and Techiman.
Mr. Opoku said his office had started prosecuting persons who
littered the streets indiscriminately or did not ensure proper
sanitation management in their homes.
He said five persons were arraigned before a magistrate court in
Sunyani last week and were fined 72 Ghana cedes each to serve as
deterrent to others.
Mr Opoku said sanitation management was a great worry to the
assembly and promised that every thing possible would be done to
bring the situation under control.
Mr. Evans Gyamfi Ameyaw, Municipal Coordinating Director, said
the public needed a change of attitude to ensure that President
John Atta Mills’ vision of total cleanliness in the country
would be achieved.
He expressed concern that “after cleaning an area people go back
within some few minutes to litter again, making the place look
untidy” and added that the assembly had plans to organise a
clean-up exercise every month to maintain cleanliness in the
municipality.
“The assembly has identified heaps of waste that have been in
the municipality for years and they will soon be removed to
farming sites as manure.”
Mr. Adu Boadi Acheampong, co–chairman of the task force on waste
management and sanitation, said the team was in the region to
assess the sanitation situation after the recent nation-wide
cleanup exercises as part of the President’s vision to reduce
filth in the country within his first 100 days in office.
Sanitation management needs a lot of money, he said, and urged
the public to support in clearing waste in the communities.
Mr. Acheampong said the team observed during the tour that the
assemblies used half of their internally generated revenue in
the management of waste.
GNA
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