According to her, citizens have a responsibility to avoid littering and dumping refuse in open spaces to ensure a clean city.

[contextly_sidebar id=”bmQfc4GDjMShdy1fBBbKODwtwpvPKhv9″]Joyce Aryee in a video for “The Right Way Campaign”, a spin-off from the OneGhana citizen responsibility objective, said the work of garbage-collecting agencies will be easier and effective if citizens make conscious efforts to make the city clean.

“If Accra is going to be the cleanest city [in Africa], it will start with us, the individual citizens, it is us because it is not the garbage collecting agencies that keep the city clean. It is us refusing to litter, it is us deciding to separate our garbage and put them in the right way. It is us deciding to do things the right way. That will be the major boost… then it will make the work of the garbage collectors easier,” she said.

President Akufo-Addo in April 2017 promised to make Accra the cleanest city in Africa by the end of his first term in 2020.

The ambitious plan comes in the face of worsening sanitation crisis in the nation’s capital, Accra, with city authorities struggling to deal with the situation.

Sections of major roads in the capital have been taken over by filth, usually dumped there by residents in nearby areas. The problem reveals an apparent inability of the relevant state agencies to effectively manage waste generated in the capital, especially those generated domestically.

But according to Dr. Joyce Aryee, addressing the sanitation challenge in the country will require concerted efforts of the citizenry, waste collecting agencies and state authorities.

“These are the steps I think [we should follow], First, the citizens, second, those who are charged with collecting and disposing of garbage, and third, those who are charged with monitoring and supervising those who do it,” she said.

About the Right Way campaign

The Right Way Campaign is a spin off from the OneGhana citizen responsibility objective.

It is a socio-cultural and behavioral change initiative aimed at impacting and adjusting the attitudes of citizens to seek to do things right and in the interest of Ghana.

It whips the conscience of citizens to do things right by making the idea of doing things right over various themes (e.g. sanitation, meritocracy etc.) top of mind and more socially desirable.

The high awareness and conscientiousness to do things right is expected to yield sub-conscious rewards from revived societal expectations and approval.

The RightWay Campaign will be apolitical in its approach, and will seek to engage with political figures from both sides of the divide, to foster national consensus on the right national values, which will help change the attitudes of the citizenry towards building a better nation.

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By: Jonas Nyabor/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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According to the sector minister, Joseph Kofi Adda, the Authority will help to effectively tackle the country’s sanitation problem, which has over the years proven to be a difficulty for successive governments.

[contextly_sidebar id=”XTfB9xCh9LsAWzYCuoxt2sRm6WXrq2lN”]Speaking at a ceremony to launch Jekora Ventures Limited (JVL) Fortifer Compost Plant on Thursday, Joseph Kofi Adda said addressing the sanitation challenge of the country was a priority of the Akufo-Addo government.

He said his outfit was committed to revising the country’s sanitation policy to make it cleaner.

“Environmental sanitation is one of our top priority, it is in line with this that the President has declared that we make Accra one of the cleanest cities in Africa. We are currently in the process of revising the environmental sanitation policy to make it more responsive to the rapidly changing focus of the needs of the people.”

He added that “A policy is being developed to get a bill in Parliament where we can set up a National Sanitation Authority to be dedicated to managing the sanitation functions of our country. The National Sanitation Authority will have a director general at the national level, the regional level, and the district level. They will then work with the District management team especially the Chief Executives to ensure that we are able to focus on this job and manage it more effectively.”

The idea of the creation of a National Sanitation Policy was earlier suggested by the Executive Secretary of the Environmental Sanitation Providers Association (ESPA), Ama Ofori-Antwi, who said on Eyewitness News that Ghana’s sanitation problems can best be addressed when the government takes serious steps to enforce the country’s sanitation by-laws, noting that there was the need for the creation of a sanitation authority to coordinate efforts of all sanitation stakeholders to ensure that the cities are clean.

President Akufo-Addo while addressing a durbar of Chiefs and people of Ngleshie Alata Traditional Area at Jamestown to honour him, promised to make Accra the cleanest city in Africa by the end of his tenure in office.

“The commitment I want to make, and for all of us to make, is that by the end of my term in office, Accra will be the cleanest city on the entire African continent. That is the commitment I am making,” he said.

Meanwhile, series of news reports gathered by Citi News in the last week shows that there is a worsening sanitation crisis in the nation’s capital, Accra with city authorities struggling to deal with the situation.

Sections of major roads in the capital have been taken over by filth, usually dumped there by residents in nearby areas. The problem reveals an apparent inability of the relevant bodies to effectively manage waste generated in the capital especially those generated domestically.

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By: Jonas Nyabor/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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