{"id":139207,"date":"2015-07-30T13:12:20","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T13:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=139207"},"modified":"2015-07-30T13:12:20","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T13:12:20","slug":"govt-unhappy-ghana-ranked-7th-dirtiest-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/07\/govt-unhappy-ghana-ranked-7th-dirtiest-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov\u2019t unhappy Ghana ranked 7th dirtiest country \u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Local Government Ministry is unhappy with the joint World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children\u2019s Fund (UNICEF) sanitation report which ranked Ghana as the world\u2019s 7<sup>th<\/sup> dirtiest country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ghana was ranked after South Sudan, Niger, Chad, Madagascar and Togo and the Government of Ghana has been under intense criticisms after the release of the report.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_131508\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-131508\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/collins_dauda2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-131508 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/collins_dauda2.jpg\" alt=\"Alhaji Collins Dauda, Minister of Local Government and Rural Development\" width=\"500\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/collins_dauda2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/collins_dauda2-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-131508\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alhaji Collins Dauda, Minister of Local Government and Rural Development<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;u0PRPajGXeotDd6gw4PORyxXNk1FcS8r&#8221;]At a press conference in the Central Region ahead of the National Sanitation Day which falls on Saturday, Local Government Minister, Collins Dauda expressed his worry over the tag.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe were all worried when there was a report issue that Ghana is the seventh dirtiest country in the world and from the day the report was issued, many radio stations have called us to comment on it and many of you have expressed disgust about this situation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He further stated that the said report has given Ghana a bad name.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt is clear that nobody is happy about this report,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He appealed to the media to help\u00a0educate the public and create awareness on sanitation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cLet us help to educate our people on the need to imbibe sanitation practices from today, tomorrow and any day in anybody\u2019s life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Selassie A. 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