Minister-designate for Sanitation and Water Resources, Mrs. Cecilia Dapaah, says the plan is still on course to make Accra the cleanest city in Africa she is 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.
According to her, some government interventions such as the provision of dustbins on roadsides were key to achieving the target.
Answering questions before the Appointments Committee of Parliament, Mrs. Dapaah said, “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,”
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in April 2027 pledged to make Accra the neatest and best city in Africa by the end of his first term of office.
He said, “The commitment we are making and which I want you all to take with me is that by the time we end our four-year term, Accra is going to be the cleanest city in Africa”.
The President pledged in an address he delivered after he had been installed a chief by the people of Jamestown and the Ngleshie Alata Traditional Council under the title Nii Kwaku Abladey Okudzeaman I, which means ‘Royal Warrior who champions the welfare of his people’.
President Akufo-Addo said the beauty of the national capital had deteriorated over the years as a result of various human activities that had destroyed the once glorious city.
In August 2020, Sanitation Minister Cecilia Abena Dapaah says the government’s promise to make Accra the cleanest city in Africa by 2020 is 85% complete.
She said “So I am telling you and I know you will quote it that, we are 85% through [with making Accra the cleanest city]. You all saw the 100% we achieved during the lockdown. So the question is, who makes Accra dirty?”
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com
