Bongo (UE), Nov 28, GNA - The Bongo District Assembly has started a series of interventions to end Open Defecation by June next year.
So far 29 communities in the District have been declared Open Defecation Free.
Mr Peter Ayenbisa, the Bongo District Chief Executive (DCE), said this at a Town Hall meeting held in Bongo where he made a presentation on his stewardship to the district.
He said the Assembly’s sanitation by- laws would be enforced to compel house owners to build toilets within their premises and warned that any person who flouted the sanitation rules in the area would be punished.
He promised Assembly Members whose electoral areas become first to be declared ODF, an opportunity to be awarded with a project of their choice.
The DCE urged all Assembly members to work hard to ensure communities and households that did not have toilets put up some.
He said plans were in place to construct 10 public toilets to offer places of convenience in the District and called on landlords to do same and prevent tenants from defecating in the open.
According to him a 12 seater water closet facility with biogas had been constructed for students of the Gowrie Senior High School, while a 10 seater toilet facility was under construction at the Soe Market, being built from the Common Fund.
On Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), the DCE thanked Water Aid for the immense contributions towards addressing sanitation issues in the District.
He also commended the government for increasing financial allocation to the water/WASH sector in the 2019 budget, from 19 per cent in 2018 to 25 per cent, making it 24 million Ghana Cedis.
On water coverage, he said an increasingly appreciably number of health centres in the District in 2017 and 2018 had access to water and noted that the Assembly’s policy to ensure that every CHPS compound constructed had pipe borne water was being adhered to.
Lamenting on the high fluoride content in underground water, the DCE said 60 boreholes had been capped and could not be used due to the high fluoride content.
Eight communities under a partnership with a Netherland Organization were on a pilot project to remove fluoride from the water, he said.
GNA
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