Governments over many years down the line have battled with sanitation related issues in Ghana.
Nevertheless none of them including the incumbent government has won the fight against the country’s terrible sanitation.

President Nana Addo and his NPP government have implemented many policies with the motive of dealing with the nation’s appalling sanitation, yet his ambition is yet to be achieved.

Policies like, the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly’s operation Keep the City Clean Green(KKCG),Make Accra the Cleanest City in Africa and many others are yet to be pull off.

As a result an Environmental and Sanitation expert Mr. Don Awantungo, the Ashanti Regional Environmental Health Officer has said he can transform and solve the country’s poor sanitation related problems in less than 20 months.

“If had the opportunity to meet His Excellency the President of the Republic, what I will tell him is, his resolve to make Ghana cleanest in the sub region and Accra the Cleanest in Africa is very easy to achieve in less than 20 months”. Don Awantungo told The Daily Dispatch Newspaper in an exclusive interview.

He mentioned that Strong Government Sanitation Institutions must be established and manned by competent technical people with good qualifications and not just like what we see today.

The institutions must be well resourced and equipped with appropriate tools and equipments at every operational level.

The possessions sent via private entities for sanitation must be rekindled into the Strong Government Sanitation Institutions.

By so doing, the institutions will therefore contract the Private Sector Sanitation Providers to a technical mechanisms and place order for monitoring and supervision to ensure strict compliance.

He mentioned again that the Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) program aimed at motivating the citizenry to build toilets in their houses will be efficiently tackled.

He further expatiated that many individuals see sanitation problem as cumbersome and could not be solved in relation to lack of appropriate directions, support and measures in the country.

However, proper sanitation could be sustained if he (Awantungo) is given the nod to take affairs of the country’s sanitation.