Fifteen (15) per cent of residents of the Kumasi Metropolis, Ghana’s second largest city, is said to engage in open defecation, the Waste Management Department of the Metropolitan Assembly has revealed. Mr. Prosper Kotoka, Director in-charge of the Department, said only fifty (50) per cent of the more than two million people in the metropolis … Read more
Open defaecation gets out of hand around University of Health & Allied Sciences; lecturers, chiefs fingered A resident of Sokode Gbogame, a suburb of Ho in the Volta Region where the University of Health and Allied Science is situated, has revealed on Onua FM’s Yen Nsempa Wednesday, May 2 a disturbing situation of open defecation … Read more
Homeowners in the Kumasi metropolis without toilet facilities in their homes will soon face prosecution, Chief Executive of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), Osei Assibey Antwi, has warned. Figures from the sanitation department of KMA shows only 39 per cent of households in the metropolis have toilet facilities. According to the assembly, 60 per cent … Read more
The Asuogyaman District Education Directorate in the Eastern Region has threatened to close down the Serdom Basic School because residents in the area defecate in the classrooms. Because the area does not have a public toilet, the residents have thus resorted to using uncompleted school block students of the Serdom Basic School as a toilet. … Read more
The Indian government has announced plans to roll out ‘Swachh Bharat Toilet Locator’ in 85 cities by 2 October 2017. The app is available for download on the Google Play Store to help people locate public toilets near their location. The app was published by the Ministry of Urban Development and it uses Google Maps … Read more
Classical music, framed watercolors and vases overflowing with fresh flowers — welcome to New York’s poshest public toilets refitted with a $254,000 upgrade, where tips are banned and the facilities are free. Gutted and re-decorated before re-opening in late April, more than a million people a year are expected to frequent the spotless Beaux Arts … Read more
The residents of Ashaiman and Adjei Kojo have been advised to patronise toilet at half price project to improve sanitation in their communities. The Greater Accra Metropolitan Area–Sanitation and Water Project (GAMA-SWP) is implementing “Get a Decent Toilet at Half Price” and also the provision of school toilets in addition with water supply in pro-poor … Read more
Inmates at the Dansoman police cells use urine and sachet water to flush toilet due to frequent water shortage. The toilet facility in the cell is also in a deplorable state as water collects in the entire washroom area all year round. Meanwhile, the Divisional Police Commander, ACP Atimbila, has deplored the inhuman treatment meted … Read more
Residents of Dominase, a farming community in Gomoa East District of the Central Region, are complaining about health hazards posed by two public places of convenience in the area. According to the residents, the stench from the two public toilets was making breathing difficult. They also lamented the deep cracks developed on the facilities which they said, … Read more
Residents of Dominase, a farming community in Gomoa East District of the Central Region, are complaining about health hazards posed by two public places of convenience in the area. According to the residents, the stench from the two public toilets was making breathing difficult. They also lamented the deep cracks developed on the facilities which … Read more
The Ministry of Sanitation has revealed government’s plans to erect private toilet facilities in Ghana, as an effective measure of addressing open defecation in the country. The Minister of Sanitation, Kofi Adda who made this known, implied that the move is with regards to the threat by World Bank to withdraw its grant support on water and sanitation to … Read more
Supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the New Juaben North and South Constituencies in the Eastern Region have forcibly taken over the operations of public toilets in the municipality. This happens in the wake of several other reported seizure of public properties in other regions of the country after the swearing in of … Read more
Supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the New Juaben North and South Constituencies in the Eastern Region have forcibly taken over the operations of public toilets in the municipality. This happens in the wake of several other reported seizure of public properties in other regions of the country after the swearing in of … Read more
Supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the New Juaben North and South Constituencies in the Eastern Region have forcibly taken over the operations of public toilets in the municipality. This happens in the wake of several other reported seizure of public properties in other regions of the country after the swearing in of … Read more
Accra, Oct. 24, GNA – The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) on March 24, 2011 directed landlords in the Metropolis to construct appropriate toilet facilities in their houses. The Assembly warned that from September 2011 it would start arresting those who would have flouted the order. ‘With effect from September 2011, any landlord who refuses to … Read more
Public toilets – a chain in the line of good sanitation Public toilets are built in communities to solve issues of open defecation and prevent diseases in various communities across the country. Its maintenance is crucial to the prevention of diseases – typhoid, cholera, salmonellosis, bacillary dysentery, tuberculosis, anthrax and parasitic worm infection. The Local … Read more
Public toilets – a chain in the line of good sanitation By Alex Blege Public toilets are built in communities to solve issues of open defaecation and prevent diseases in various communities across the country. Its maintenance is crucial to the prevention of diseases – typhoid, cholera, salmonellosis, bacillary dysentery, tuberculosis, anthrax, and parasitic worm … Read more
Public toilets are built in communities to solve issues of open defaecation and prevent diseases in various communities across the country. Its maintenance is crucial to the prevention of diseases – typhoid, cholera, salmonellosis, bacillary dysentery, tuberculosis, anthrax, and parasitic worm infection. Local Government Act 462 (1993) mandates Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) to … Read more
President John Dramani Mahama has said that the next NDC administration under his watch will work towards ending the age-old menace of open defecation by 2021. The President said this at the Banquet Hall of the State House on Tuesday, where he gave highlights of his party’s manifesto for the 2016 polls in December. The … Read more