{"id":112276,"date":"2015-04-29T09:18:14","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T09:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=112276"},"modified":"2015-04-29T09:19:26","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T09:19:26","slug":"deny-homes-without-toilets-building-permit-minister-to-mmdas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/04\/deny-homes-without-toilets-building-permit-minister-to-mmdas\/","title":{"rendered":"Deny homes without toilets building permit \u2013 Minister to MMDAs"},"content":{"rendered":"
A Minister of State at the presidency, Elvis Afriyie Ankrah has charged Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies (MMDAs) to stop issuing building permits to households without sanitary facilities.<\/p>\n
According to him, it is unpardonable to have homes in urban centers without toilets; a situation he said encourages open defecation.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n The minister recounted how Ghana in 2014, battled with the cholera outbreak, which was triggered by insanitary conditions\u00a0and open defecation.<\/p>\n Elvis Afriyie Ankrah made the call at the launch of the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programme dubbed Catalyzing WASH from Possible to Profitable ( P2P) in Accra on Tuesday.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n The project jointly funded by the Netherlands Government and the Government of Ghana has established a four million Euro fund, which will be disbursed to over 3,000 households and micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Ghana to enable them provide sanitary facilities.<\/p>\n