Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources urged to come out with measures that could punish environmental offenders.
In his quest to ensure that cases of disease outbreaks in the society are curbed, a Kumasi based renowned man of God, Rev David Armstrong has suggested that the Ministry of Sanitation And Water Resources needs to collaborate with the stakeholders to come out with policies that could arrest and prosecute environmental pollutants who may be caught in the act of doing the undoable.
Pastor David Armstrong, founder and leader of the Mo Mary Fellowship in Kumasi who was commending the sector Minister, Hon Cecelia Abena Dapaah over her recent two days official tour in Kumasi to inspect the ongoing Greater Kumasi Metropolitan Area’s (GKMA) ultra modern households and institutional bio digester toilet facilities told our correspondent in Kumasi that he appreciates the initiative of the projects.
He noted that the project has come at the right time to eliminate open defecation in the society.
According to the clergy, whilst the government through the World Bank Fund, is carrying out the project, some Ghanaians would also target to interrupt the progress of the agenda.
Apparently through giving I ll advise to others to feign interest from registering their names to get access to the facilities.
Rev Armstrong observed that government spends huge sums of monies to import drugs almost everyday to solve the health challenges in country, but in his view, the drug importations cuould be curbed if Ghanaians observe sanitation and environmental rules in the society.
Many disease outbreaks tend to happen out of our own mistakes, citing how certain people resorts to open defecation, carelessly dumping refuse into gutters and river bodies, failure to maintain surroundings among others.
He stressed that if the aforementioned practices could be avoided, the better we would remained as a healthy citizens to move the country forward.
Expressing his excitement about the move the Ministry have been taken to educate and creating public awareness for the people to become abreast with the need on how to observe environmental laws to help curb disease outbreaks, hence the call for policies that could help arrest and prosecute environmental offenders.
The man of God was hopeful that if his message is taken seriously and enforced, it would go a long way to save Ghanaians from attracting premature sickness and also save the government from spending huge sums of monies for drug importations, of which such monies could be channelled to address other important issues.
