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Are we not tired of committees and taskforces and now environmental policemen? This is another wasteful spending. We have more than enough institutions to monitor our environment and prosecute those that abuse it.
We don't need any environmental police when the environmetal health department of the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development has the trained men and women who are more than capable of doing what the minister is t ...
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He stopped chewing cola about three days ago. Tweakai.
Yes another avenue to feed ndc foot soldiers - job for the boys. Ahhh elections are approaching and foot soldiers have to be fed. Bet with your head they will have money for this one, - ala Talensi.
The environment police team should be conversant with environmental laws and regulations, and receive training by EPA.
This is why our schools must adopt policies that are sane, humane, and ecological (SHE).
Most of our ministers and particularly the one taking about environmental police are square pegs. All we need is to strengthen the district and metro assemblies to get the job done. We already have environmenta ...
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Rather set Community Environmental Committees to spearhead environmental and sanitation issues. Preventative approach instead of a punitive strategy.
Good idea, hope it's not lip service?
IT IS GOOD TO POLICE THE ENVIRONMENT. HOWEVER THIS SHD NOT BE DONE BY THE CREATION OF ANOTHER GROUP.
STRENGTHEN THE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT OF THE MINISTRY OF LOCAL GOVT AND THE ENV PROTECTION AGENCY.
john pocket
Useless people, always protesting and contesting ways and means to curtail our primitive nature. Africans need extraordinary force to act like disciplined humans. These team is being established to enforce the law not to educ ...
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Is a bad idea but minister please try to help the school of hygiene student(environmental health and sanitation officers-the expects) the tankus man who have not been posted,leaving five batch at home since 2013. We also have ...
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Police are pray to God that the NDC government would creat this ministry for them to increase their bribery and corruption practices. The NDC government and the Ghana Police Force are in the same soup.
Fulani's had capture the farming environment where you migrate, what have you as a minister or what have you done about that?
You are one of the very few promising leaders of this country: wherever you go, you bring innovative and visionary ideas. I thought we lost your vision after you left Sports Min but I see now you are an all-round visionary le ...
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You cannot invent the wheel. Go in for Sanitary Inspectors and leave the Police to deal with the increasing crime rate.
Sanitary Inspectors?
You mean Sanitation Inspectors.
Lost we are. We have a serious problem with our education system. Confusing sanitary with sanitation tells the whole story