Government 85% through with making Accra the cleanest city in Africa – Sanitation Minister

Sanitation Minister Cecilia Abena Dapaah says the Akufo-Addo government is 85% through with fulfilling its promise to make Accra the cleanest city in Africa by 2020.

The Minister tolsd the media during a cleanup exercise in parts on Nima Tuesday, said the government so far, has done a commendable job to keep the city clean.

Madam Dapaah, however, noted that, some attitudes of citizens has made it difficult to fully actualize the goal.

“When we don’t do these things of throwing rubbish into the drains, the drains will be clearer and neater and our homes will also be clean because the Assembly has been tasked to send round the tricycles to pick up our waste.

“So I am telling you and I know you will quote it that, we are 85% through [with making Accra the cleanest city]. You all saw the 100% we achieved during the lockdown. So the question is, who makes Accra dirty?”

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President Nana Akufo-Addo on April 24, 2017, declared his intention to make Accra the cleanest city on the continent, by the end of his first term in office.

Speaking on his promise two years after in 2019, the President said the government has achieved immense results in improving sanitation in the country.

He was of the view that his pledge to make Accra the cleanest city in Africa will come to pass.

 President Akufo-Addo said the beauty of the national capital had deteriorated over the years as a result of various human activities that had destroyed the once glorious city.