The Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Dapaah says Accra is generally clean, despite government’s inability to fulfil the promise of making Accra the cleanest city in Africa by 2020.
She made the statement in Parliament while answering a question posed to her on sanitation in the country.
The Minister also outlined various measures the President has put in place to make Accra clean.
“There will always be challenges as the population grows and people migrate. Yes, there are challenges and I extensively brought to the Floor some of these challenges when I briefed the House. For instance, the honourable member was speaking about last week’s rain, the plastics are under the Ministry of Science, Environment, and Technology and the dredging is also under the ambit of the Ministry of Works and Housing.”
“The Ministry for the Works and Housing went around the city and visited the Aslyum down area and I know he is also giving contracts for drain dredging and I believe the Minister is capable of finding the needed solution but generally, I can say Accra is clean,” she said
