Free in-house toilets for Sunyani residents

Deprived households in the Sunyani Municipality will soon benefit from free in-house toilet facilities.

Mr George Kumi, a former Ambassador to Libya, in the erstwhile New Patriotic Party administration, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) of his intention to construct the toilets was to end the long queues residents in the municipality engaged in before attending public toilets.

He emphasized that he was lobbying for support from international partners and other funding agencies to able him to construct the facilities.

Mr Kumi, also a former High Commissioner to Nigeria expressed worry that the Municipality was still lagged behind in development, with majority of residents deprived of other basic necessities including potable drinking water and educational infrastructure.

He emphasized that farmers in communities such as Wawasua, Nkrankrom, Atronie, Antwikrom and Atuahenekrom, among others, ought to be also supported and motivated to engage in commercial food and livestock productions to enable them meet their daily necessities.

Mr Kumi who was very compassionate about the unemployment situation especially among the youth, advised the unemployed to engaged in artisanal works and other apprenticeship programmes.

He emphasized that though education played a critical role in self and national development, it ought not to be a hindrance to those that could not did get the opportunity to go to school.

Mr Kumi advised Ghanaians to bury their partisan political interest, and collaborate in effort towards national reconstruction processes.