Amansaman celebrates World Toilet Day

Mr Sam Atukwei Quaye, Municipal Chief Executive for the Ga West Municipal Assembly, has ordered that Environmental officers should from henceforth send any offender to court for not improving sanitation facilities.

Mr Atukwei Quaye made call at Amasaman during this year’s World Toilet Day celebration.

He said the Assembly had created the conducive environment for partnership to finding a lasting solution to this menace, more especially on delivering high quality water and sanitation and hygiene service to make Ga West a pleasant place.

Mr Atukwei Quaye lauded the intervention by Partnership for Sustainable Sanitation like Public-Private Partnership (PPP) project under the Ghana Netherlands wash window, which aims at helping communities in the Ga Municipality address sanitation challenges.

He said, PPP key partners such as the Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor, HFC Boafo Microfinance Services Limited and Unilever Netherland, were also helping to enhance sanitation and hygiene service delivery to the people of the municipality.

Mr Atukwei Quaye said with technical support from WSUP for five years, Ga West had developed compound sanitation implementation with the target of enhancing access to improve toilet facilities for 80,000 low income residents by 2019, where toilets would be found in every compound.

He said since the outbreak of a number of cholera cases and other epidemics in the municipality, the Assembly’s health department and other organisations, had adopted some strategies for 100 days to mitigate the situation.