Residents of Kukuo Electoral Area in the Tamale metropolis are instituting a community sanitation project known as the sanitation festival.
The sanitation festival which is a community mobilization project is meant to help community members curb the increasing sanitation challenges that the electoral area is facing.
In an interview with A1 News, the assembly member of the Kukuo electoral area, Mohammed Mutala Mahamudu said the project is in fulfillment of his campaign promise to initiate measures to deal with the sanitation situation when he was seeking to be elected as an assembly member of the electoral area.
He said the assembly has been to the electoral area and collected some data with the promise of coming back to dispose of all their refuse in their electoral area but have failed to come back.
According to him, as an assemblyman, he is soliciting funds to make sure he disposes off or evacuates the refuse to make Kukuo the cleanest electoral area in the Tamale Metropolis.
Mr. Mutala also mentioned that the electoral area has four public toilet facilities which only two are not functioning with one under construction and the other facility is a death trap posing danger to the lives of residents.
He mentioned that following government for every house to have a toilet the assembly has taken the initiative to help them build toilets in their homes through reducing the cost of building toilet facility in their homes.
The assemblyman said the residents of the electoral area are adopting the idea and they will educate the residents on the positive impact of having toilets in their homes.
He thanked the Social Welfare Department for intervening to boost the initiative by helping build the toilets for free for seven people in the electoral area.
A resident of the electoral area, Mohammed Awal, said their new assembly member is putting up efforts to ensure the project dubbed “Sanitation Festival” brings them together to make the environment clean.
He revealed that the electoral area has refuse containers but residents pour their waste around the container instead of putting the waste inside the container.
According to him, the assemblyman tasked someone to take care of the place and adopted a strategy known as pay-as-you-dump which is making the sanitation situation better in the Kukuo electoral area.
Source: A1Radioonline.com|101.1MHz|Tii Sanduogbil Thomas |Ghana
