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Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly arrests 20 people for open defecation
Add a CommentThe Environmental Health Department of the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan area has arrested some 20 persons for openly defecating along the beaches. The offenders according to Mr Abdul Karim Hudu, Metropolitan Environmental Health Director in an interview with Ghana News Agency had … Read more →
Open defecation costs Ghana $79million every year
Add a CommentOpen defecation costs the country approximately $79million annually, Mr. Raphael Godlove Ahenu, the Chief Executive Officer of Global Media Foundation (GLOEMF), a media advocacy non-governmental organisation said on Monday. In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA), on the … Read more →
Sekondi-Takoradi: 21 Persons arrested for open defecation
Add a Comment21 persons have been arrested by a joint taskforce of Police and Environmental Health Officers for openly defecating at unauthorized spaces within Sekondi Takoradi metropolis in the Western Region. The Sekondi Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly has begun a metro-wide operation on … Read more →
GH¢485 million needed to end open defecation in Ghana
Add a CommentThe government need to mobilise GH¢485 million to finance about 970,559 households who require some form of financing to own household latrines. This is based on the assumption that a basic improved latrine will cost GH¢500 per household. Research by … Read more →
Ghana ranked 2nd in open defecation
Add a CommentGhana has been ranked as second in Africa in open defecation with 19 per cent of its population resorting to sanitation practice deemed the riskiest of all. The Tamale Metropolis in the Northern Region is the second highest percentage of … Read more →
Mason dies attempting to openly defecate
1 CommentResidents of Anlokordzi, a suburb of Ho in the Volta regional were thrown into a state of shock and agony in the early hours of Sunday when a 34 year old man was found dead in a gutter. The deceased … Read more →
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