Concerted effort needed in dealing with sanitation – Savelugu MCE

The Municipal Chief Executive for Savelugu/Nanton, Hon. Abdulai Alhassan Red, has attributed the poor sanitation condition in the area to lack of adherence to calls for change of attitude by residents.

He said “even though a lot must be done by the assembly in fighting poor sanitation in the Savelugu/Nanton municipal area, residents must also heed to the calls to change their attitude”.

The MCE also hinted about a periodic clean up exercise to be rolled out by the assembly, to involve community members in the fight against poor sanitation in the municipality.

Speaking on Sanitation Monday on Might Morning Show with Shaibu Awudu, the MCE bemoaned the low level of income generation by the assembly, citing the lack of cooperation by community members especially those involved in various trades.

He said the Assembly has the requisite human resource to proffer various solutions to the sanitation problems confronting the Municipality but the implementation of the recommendations sometimes becomes difficult with the level of income being generated by the assembly.

Mr. Alhassan Red said in the medium to long term, the Savelugu/Nanton Municipal Assembly as part of the government’s efforts to ensure people pay enough for development in their communities, is involved in the street naming exercise which will make it easier to identify structures within the municipality, thereby, getting them to pay in terms of strength for the development of the municipality beginning with sanitation.

The Programmes Manager for the WuniZaligu Development Association, Mr Karim Ziblim, outlined various business ideas assemblies could put together to generate income from feacal matter, citing the collaboration with the Private Sector and Civil Society to make this a reality.

He said feacal matter could be passed through a process with some additives to produce compost which will be useful for farmers.