Metropolitan Chief Executive of Tamale, Hon. Abdul Hanan Gundadow, has complained about the sanitation problem confronting the metropolis, urging the residents of the city to ensure clean environment.
According to him, the Assembly is grappling with sanitation management which has been compounded by the sprawling nature of the city as well as the increase in the number of people coming into the metropolis to do business.
He said hawkers transiting daily in the metropolis indiscriminately discard materials in the business central, whilst others dispose trash into drains, which he said contribute to flooding.
At the Assembly’s 2015 town hall meeting on Saturday, he estimated that an average of two thousand tones of refuse generated in the metropolis, has now increased to three thousand tones per day.
Mr. Gundadow said the inability of the assembly to hit the 100% sanitation mark is as a result of the scanty budgetary allocation for sanitation.
He bemoaned the high level of apathy among the residents of the metropolis to issues pertaining to cleanliness and the National Sanitation Day programme.
“People wake up in the morning and their concern is to bath, take their breakfast and leave for their work places and care very little about their immediate surroundings.”
Hon. Gundadow, therefore, called for attitudinal change to protect the dignity of the metropolis, promote a sense of decency and environmental cleanliness.
He further urged youth groups, opinion leaders, heads of educational institutions and traditional rulers to embark on clean up exercises in their areas periodically to enable the metropolis improve upon its sanitation situation.
To him, the metropolis cannot claim to lead in the transformation of northern Ghana, when everywhere is engulfed with filth.
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