The Chief Executive of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), Mayor Stanley Nii Adjiri Blankson, has stated emphatically that nothing can be achieved without discipline.
He said most of the environmental sanitation problems faced in Accra, were due to lack of discipline.
He noted that no amount of investments in sanitation can produce the expected impact, if the beneficiaries do not apply a sense of discipline in the use and management of sanitary facilities.
Speaking at the launch of the Accra Sewerage Improvement Project (ASIP), held in Accra yesterday, he said the improvement of environmental sanitation, was a way of reducing communicable diseases to the barest minimum, thereby improving on the health of the citizens.
He said under the second Urban Environmental Sanitation Project (UESP II), a household latrine delivery scheme has been introduced, which was aimed at eliminating the outmoded unhygienic and degrading pan system.
He explained that the Accra Sewerage Improvement Project was aimed at extending the existing sewerage network, which currently serves only fifteen percent (15%) of total land area of the Accra Metropolis, to include facilities that would serve the greater majority of residents in Accra.
Mayor Adjiri Blankson further pointed out that sewerage, or liquid waste management in the city of Accra, had not been the best.
He stated that with the construction of the Accra Sewerage project, the capital city was expected to significantly benefit from the provision of an improved and extended sewerage and sanitation system for disposing of waste water, in an environmentally and socially acceptable manner, to meet demand up to the year 2030.
He said on the completion of the projects outlined under ASIP, access to sanitation facilities would increase from the present 40% to 65% in the urban and peri-urban areas of Accra, by the year 2021. On the theme, “Making sewerage facilities/services accessible to all residents of Accra by the year 2020,” the Minister of Local Government, Rural Development and Environment, Mr. Kwadwo Adjei-Darko, added that it was to ensure appreciable progress, as far as the Millennium Development Goals and the Growth and poverty Reduction Strategies were concerned.
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