Sanitaton worsens in La sub metro
Story by Naa Lamiley Bentil
One major problem facing the La sub.metro office of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly is the lack of sound sanitation in the La community.
Indiscriminate dumping of refuse and defecating in drains is a common practice in the community according to the sub.metro director, Mr Noah tumfo. He attributed the indiscriminate dumping of refuse partly to the reduction in the number of sanitary site in the area from 12 to six . He explained that the six sanitary sites were woefully inadequate to cater for the many household in the community.
The sub-metro, however,had to give up the six sanitary sites when owners of the land which they were sited demanded the lands on which they were located.
He said even when the sites were 12, there were issues of overflowing refuse skips and indiscriminate dumping, and ask how much more when sites were now just six.
Mr Tumfo said the Ghana @ 50 project for the community, which was the construction of two public places of convenience at strategic locations had stalled for over a year now.
The two projects, one at Gonse near the La Presbyterian Church, and the other at Agyeman, close to the Regimanuel Gray offices, are both at the lintel level.
The community, he said, urgently needed the facility but had been unable to complete the two projects since they were awarded by the Ghana @ 50 secretariat.
Attempts to get officials of the secretariat to get work on the project completed had proved futile, Mr Tumfo said.
Mr Tumfo said the work of the sub-metro was a daunting one but gave the assurance that in spite of the challenges, the personnel were doing their best to ensure sound sanitation practices.
He expressed regret that some residents in this day and age found nothing wrong in defecating into drains and beaches, and appealed to such people to halt the practice to ease the sub-metro's work.
One major problem facing the La sub.metro office of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly is the lack of sound sanitation in the La community.
Indiscriminate dumping of refuse and defecating in drains is a common practice in the community according to the sub.metro director, Mr Noah tumfo. He attributed the indiscriminate dumping of refuse partly to the reduction in the number of sanitary site in the area from 12 to six . He explained that the six sanitary sites were woefully inadequate to cater for the many household in the community.
The sub-metro, however,had to give up the six sanitary sites when owners of the land which they were sited demanded the lands on which they were located.
He said even when the sites were 12, there were issues of overflowing refuse skips and indiscriminate dumping, and ask how much more when sites were now just six.
Mr Tumfo said the Ghana @ 50 project for the community, which was the construction of two public places of convenience at strategic locations had stalled for over a year now.
The two projects, one at Gonse near the La Presbyterian Church, and the other at Agyeman, close to the Regimanuel Gray offices, are both at the lintel level.
The community, he said, urgently needed the facility but had been unable to complete the two projects since they were awarded by the Ghana @ 50 secretariat.
Attempts to get officials of the secretariat to get work on the project completed had proved futile, Mr Tumfo said.
Mr Tumfo said the work of the sub-metro was a daunting one but gave the assurance that in spite of the challenges, the personnel were doing their best to ensure sound sanitation practices.
He expressed regret that some residents in this day and age found nothing wrong in defecating into drains and beaches, and appealed to such people to halt the practice to ease the sub-metro's work.
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