The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has asked landlords in the Metropolis to construct appropriate toilet facilities in their houses, warning that the Assembly would from September start arresting those who would flout the order.
“With effect from September 2011, any landlord who refuses to
provide toilet facilities for his or tenants would be arrested and
prosecuted,” said Dr Simpson Boateng, Metro Director of Public Health.
Dr Simpson, who was addressing the press on Wednesday on measures
adopted by the Assembly to curb the cholera outbreak, noted that about
90 per cent of households in the Metropolis lacked toilet facilities
thereby making people to defecate at unapproved places and increasing
the rate of the cholera outbreak in the city.
He said since the cholera outbreak was noticed in the country in
September 2010, about 3,000 cases and more than 30 deaths had been
recorded in Accra alone.
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