Calls to replicate sanitation courts in every assembly to expedite prosecution

Metropolitan Public Health Director at the Accra Metropolitan Assembly(AMA), Ms. Florence Kuukyi has attributed the surging sanitation offences within the Greater Accra Region to the inadequacy of sanitation courts.

This, she said has contributed to the worsening sanitation situation in the country.

Ms. Florence Kuukyi was speaking in an interview with Soireenews.com at the sidelines of an event organized by GAYO and partners to lunch waste incineration to aid in ensuring proper management of waste in the country. Madam Florence Kuukyi however bemoaned the inadequacy of the sanitation court as affecting their move to salvage the sanitation situation within the country, therefore, calling for innovative ways of providing a sanitation court to serve two closely-related assemblies. The situation, she disclosed is hampering the effective administration or oversight of proper sanitation within the country particularly, within Greater Accra Region. She said merging two assemblies and providing them with a sanitation court will aid reduce the increasing assembly bye-laws-related offences. She decried the fact that people seem to understand punitive measures than steps to abate the nuisance. Another thing she decried was the fact that "people think they know people" so when they are held liable for an offense, the next minute, you receive calls for their release. In conclusion, she mentioned attitudinal-related challenges as the country's biggest enemy.