Residents of Hohoe fined for unsanitary bathhouse

Hohoe, Aug. 27, GNA - Sroda Sewornu and six others all residents of Gbi-Abansi in the Hohoe Municipality have been sentenced to a fine of 100 Ghana Cedis each by a Hohoe Magistrate Court for using an unsanitary bathhouse.

Also included in the charge is the accumulation of waste water at the back of their dwelling places, providing a sanctuary for the breeding of mosquitoes.

The others are Francis Adehenu, Douglas Nyadigbe, Comfort Agbodo Enyonam Okedzi and two others who only gave their names as Agboga and Alberta.

They pleaded guilty and were fined 50 Ghana Cedis each per count or in default serve six months in hard labour. Their sentences run cumulatively with proceeds paid to the Environmental Office.

Prosecuting Environmental Health Officer, Mr Anson Yevu, told the court presided over by Ms Janet Awo Bakudie that all accused persons live in the same house numbered H/N ABA-L-131 at Abansi, a suburb of Hohoe and use the same bathhouse.

He said Officials of the unit on routine inspection on July 9, this year, discovered the unusual growth of algae in their bathhouse making the place scruffy, an indication that the bathhouse had not been scrubbed for a while.

Mr Yevu said the team again noticed the accumulation of wastewater behind their dwelling, which was breeding mosquito larvaes. He said an advice to bail out the wastewater was disregarded, as no effort was made by the household, to abate the nuisance, hence their prosecution.