{"id":126822,"date":"2015-06-21T12:09:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T12:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=126822"},"modified":"2015-06-21T12:09:35","modified_gmt":"2015-06-21T12:09:35","slug":"ama-makes-gh%e2%82%b580000-from-fines-for-sanitation-offences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=126822","title":{"rendered":"AMA makes GH\u20b580,000 from fines for sanitation offences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Metropolitan Public Health Department of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), has realised GH\u20b580,000 from fines imposed on sanitation offenders prosecuted in the 10 sub-metros.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;DTRESpnPY1fdU0loA3NezohjThabWULr&#8221;]Dr Simpson Anim Boateng, Director of the Department in an interview with Ghana News Agency, said a total of 616 sanitation cases from January to May, were prosecuted while others were cautioned and discharged.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that many people residing in the metropolis do not comply with the bye-laws on environmental health, which are the basis of poor waste management in Accra; hence the need to intensify the sanitation laws to serve as deterrent to others.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_81832\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81832\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-81832\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/oko-vanderpuiye-arrest-trotro-driver-2-1.png\" alt=\"Commercial bus driver being led away by the mayor\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/oko-vanderpuiye-arrest-trotro-driver-2-1.png 768w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/oko-vanderpuiye-arrest-trotro-driver-2-1-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-81832\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Commercial bus driver being led away by the mayor for failing to observe National sanitation day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He said the measures have become necessary to curb the practice of open defecation, littering, dumping of refuse into drains that cause diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Boateng warned animal owners to ensure that they pen them to abate nuisance within the communities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Metropolitan Public Health Department of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), has realised GH\u20b580,000 from fines imposed on sanitation offenders prosecuted in the 10 sub-metros. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;DTRESpnPY1fdU0loA3NezohjThabWULr&#8221;]Dr Simpson Anim Boateng, Director of the Department in an interview with Ghana News Agency, said a total of 616 sanitation cases from January to May, were prosecuted while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":126823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-126822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/126823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}