DED/GTZ partner CCMA on Sanitation
The Metropolitan Chief Executive of Cape Coast, Anthony Egyir Aikins, has cautioned Assembly Members to desist from always pleading on behalf of people who flout the Assembly's bye laws. He stressed that, the Assembly will soon enforce its bye laws on waste management and sanitation issues rigorously and will not spare anyone who breaks the bye-laws on sanitation.
Mr. Egyir Aikins threw the caution at the opening of a 4 day training workshop on waste management within the Cape Coast Metropolis.
About sixty participants from waste management organisations including Zoom lion, the environmental unit of the Assembly and members of the assembly are attending. They will be taken through Local Government System and Structures and identification of waste management functions.
They will also be taught how to prepare waste management plans for the Metropolis and Development strategies and the roles of the various stakeholders. The programme is being organised by the German Development Service in collaboration with GTZ.
Mr. Egyir Aikins mentioned the need for Environmental Sanitation Management to be part of school curricula to inculcate into the youth sanitation consciousness. According to him, Cape Coast is known to be the heart beat of the nation's tourism and called on the citizens and all stakeholders to put in extra effort to address the issue. He added that, sanitation management is not one man's business.
The Oguaa Omanhene, Osabarima Kwesi Atta, reiterated the MCE'S concern about Assembly members intervening for people who break the assembly's bye laws and urged them to desist from such behaviour. According to him, Cape Coast's position in the tourism industry is one that demand a sustained effort to ensure cleanliness.
The representative of the German Development Service in Cape Coast, Kristian Jaitze, said the programme follows his organisations effort at addressing the issue of Waste Management and Sanitation in Cape Coast.
He noted that a pilot programme which has mobilised people of Anaafo, a fishing community in Cape Coast to ensure cleanliness in their area at all times, has been successful and will be replicated in other parts of the Metropolis.