"Play your respective roles in the fight against unhealthy practices" – President

Accra, 25 July, GNA – President Nana Addo
Danquah Akufo-Addo urged Ghanaians to play their respective roles in the
fight against unsanitary practices, in particular that of liquid waste management.

In a speech made in his name
by Professor George Gyan-Baffour, Minister for Planning at the
Sanitation Challenges for Ghana Prices, "President Urged the Public to Refrain
waste, indiscriminate disposal of waste and open defecation.

The challenge is a project funded by UKAID
Implemented by IMC Worldwide, IRC Ghana and supported by Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation, to create competition between all metropolitan, municipal groups
district and district bademblies and private partners to design and implement
innovative strategies to solve liquid waste problems in the country.

He said that the government was committed to
prioritize and improve the delivery of liquid waste management services
the creation of the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources.

For the first time in the history of Ghana,
he said, the Ministry of Finance, through the physical decentralization unit,
had created guidelines and a budget line for liquid waste management in the
municipalities, adding that the guidelines and the budget line previously
only on solid waste management.

The president said, he was reliably informed
that the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources had managed to roll
the sanitation and water supply project in Gama, which provided 250,000 households
with improved sanitation facilities, served 64,000 low-income people with safe drinking water
urban areas and built 406 health blocks serving 163 students.

He said another achievement of sanitation was
the construction of Box covers along Kaneshie section at Mallam
Junction, which had reduced the long-lasting flood since time in memory.

He noted that the Ministry had developed a
integrated sanitation plan for Greater Accra Metropolitan Region,
which would serve as a model to guide the development of environmental sanitation
in the countryside.

He said a complete digital surveillance
platforms have also been created as a database for capturing and monitoring sanitation activities.
improvement in all bademblies.

"There is also the Great Sustainable Accra
Remediation and livelihood improvement project under way at the
Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources and exclusively devoted to liquid waste
management; build and connect 500 homes to the existing sewer system
and also build 7,000 household toilet systems in low-income urban areas
communities. "

He said that he would also train 1,000
artisans and entrepreneurs in the laundry sector to better ensure sanitation
services, which would create jobs.

He urged all the MMDAs, as well as their
private partners, to use their advocacy platforms to advance the program.

GNA