Sanitation courts in the offing in Ho

The Ho Municipal Directorate of the Environmental Health Unit is liaising with the relevant stakeholders, through the Assembly, for the establishment of sanitation courts in the municipality.

Mr Samuel Galley, the Municipal Head of the Unit, said this on Wednesday in Ho at the inauguration of Sanitation Taskforces for the implementation of a Ho-Rotary-Club sponsored Sanitation Awareness and Improvement Project.

He said the courts were necessary to punish recalcitrant offenders.

Mr Galley told the GNA that the sanitation situation was improving in Ho but in the same breath, expressed regret about “people’s awful attitude regarding sanitation was the big issue”.

Mr Rockson Dogbegah, the Rotary-Ho President, inaugurated the three task forces namely Central Task Force, Municipal Task Force and the Community Task Force.

The Ho-Municipality is piloting the project to be replicated in the other districts shortly.

Mr Dogbegah said the Central Task Force, at the apex, would operate the project at the regional level and superintend the district and community taskforces and that a major component of the project was the Awards Scheme.

Mr Dogbegah said to press home the urgency and importance Rotary-Ho attached to the project the first awards ceremony had been slated for March.

Agencies represented in the task forces, all headed by Rotarians, include the Ghana Health Service, Environmental Health Units, National Disaster Management Organization, National Commission for Civic Education and the Media.

Mr Dogbega said the fight against bad sanitation practices was a huge one for which a lot of volunteerism was needed.

Ms Rejoice Kasu, a Rotarian and Chairperson of the Central Task Force, said volunteers with the project would be on hand to support sanitation workers at the community levels.