By Isaac Newton Tetteh
Tema, June 27, GNA-The Tema West Municipal Assembly (TWMA) in the Greater Accra Region is to review the various sanitation management contracts by September 2025 to meet the demands of the constituents, Mr Ludwig Teye Totimeh, Municipal Chief Executive, has revealed.
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) after the first ordinary general assembly meeting of the second session of the third assembly, Mr Totimeh opined that the review was necessary to ensure that sanitation within the municipality improves.
He said that currently the Assembly was working with six sanitation management companies, hinting that efforts were far advanced to rezone the sanitation areas into smaller units within the municipality to ensure efficient and effective sanitation management.
According to him, one of the key performance indicators of President John Dramani Mahama was to ensure that proper sanitation practices were adhered to across the country, saying, the Tema West Municipal Assembly would do all it could to improve on sanitation management within the municipality.
Mr Totimeh further advised eateries, pubs, bars and other public places within the municipality to adhere strictly to proper sanitation practices with a call on households to desist from opening effluents into public drains, citing serious health implications, warning that “We will not hesitate to prosecute defaulters.”
He admonished electorates within the various electoral areas in the municipality to subscribe to the services of the sanitation management companies to help deal with sanitation issues within the various communities.
Mr Totimeh called on the assembly members within the various electoral areas to pay critical attention to sanitation issues and be agents of good sanitation practices.
The MCE stated that liquid waste management had become a serious challenge in some communities within the municipality, stressing that most of the sewer lines that carry liquid waste from the households needed to be replaced.
He therefore called on stakeholders and investors within the sanitation sector to scout for better measures to help deal with the menace.
“Our doors remained open and ready to collaborate to improve on sanitation practices within the municipality,” he noted.
GNA
Edited by Laudia Sawer/Lydia Kukua Asamoah