[ 2021-02-24 ]

Accra on course to becoming cleanest city in Africa – Cecila Dapaah
Despite missing the target of making Accra the
cleanest city in Africa by 2020, the Minister
designate for Sanitation and Water Resources, Mrs
Cecilia Dapaah, says the plan is still on course.
According to her, the target was yet to be
achieved because “when you start a process, it
takes time to yield results.”



President Akufo-Addo in 2017 declared his
government’s intention to make Accra the
cleanest on the continent by the end of his first
term in office.

Appearing before the Appointments Committee of
Parliament on Tuesday, Mrs Dapaah said, "Accra is
on course to become the cleanest city that the
President said in absolute terms. I think we are
on course looking at what we started doing and
what I continued from my colleague."

According to her, some government interventions
such as the provision of dustbins on roadsides
were key to achieving the target.

“Most important of all we have also through the
GAMA [Greater Accra Metropolitan Area] project
provided 3,300 household toilets. That is also
part of the cleanliness projects we have
undertaken,” she added.



In remarks back in August 2020, Mrs. Dapaah, who
was the Sanitation and Waters Resources minister,
said the government had attained the goal to make
Accra the cleanest City during the lockdown which
was necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic.

However, she said after the restrictions were
lifted, the filth started re-emerging.

Mrs. Dapaah further noted that the proposed
Sanitation Fund would aid efforts to make Ghana as
a whole cleaner.


“We are proposing that there should be a
Sanitation Fund, either supplied by the government
of Ghana or through a Sanitation Levy so that we
will be well-equipped financially to take care of
the gap in the financing of sanitation in this
country.”

Source - Graphic Online

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