{"id":395020,"date":"2017-06-09T13:26:32","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T13:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/06\/09\/ngo-wants-implementation-of-polluter-pays-principle\/"},"modified":"2017-06-09T13:26:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T13:26:32","slug":"ngo-wants-implementation-of-polluter-pays-principle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/06\/09\/ngo-wants-implementation-of-polluter-pays-principle\/","title":{"rendered":"NGO wants implementation of Polluter Pays Principle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The government has been urged to implement the \u2018Polluter Pays Principle\u2019 to ensure a safer environment.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>An environmental non-governmental organisation, Friends of Rivers and Water Bodies, which made the call on the occasion of the observation of this year\u2019s World Environment Day, expressed concern that the policy had remained on the drawing board for too long with waste generators having a field day, while the pollution of the environment continued with impunity.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The Polluter Pays Principle is the globally accepted practice where those who cause pollution bear the costs of managing it.<br \/>Although the policy found place in the government\u2019s environmental policy, its implementation had been a problem.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Free taxpayers <br \/>The President of Friends of Rivers and Water Bodies, Nana Dwomoh Sarpong, questioned why the taxpayers\u2019 money should be used to clean the streets while the polluter was allowed to go free.<br \/>\u201cWe have so many laws in the status books but we are not enforcing them; we cannot do the same thing and expect different results,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Ghana, he noted, was one of the first signatories to the Kyoto Protocol which said no one should deny the other person downstream of water.<br \/>\u201cBut what we are doing in this country is the opposite. In other places, they adhere to that; you can&#8217;t deny somebody downstream water while you have signed the protocol,\u201d Nana Sarpong observed.<br \/>He posited that democracy without the enforcement of laws was not democracy because democracy itself hinged on the rule of law.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Describing the observation of the World Environment Day in Ghana as \u201ca sad day for me\u201d, the NGO\u2019s president said that was basically due to the destruction of water bodies.<br \/>Nana Sarpong also spoke against building on watercourses, saying that had been the cause of flooding in many areas.<br \/>\u201cGhanaians should note that environmental protection is the duty of all,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Media commended<br \/>Nana Sarpong commended the media for supporting environmental protection, especially the fight against \u2018galamsey\u2019, and urged them to do even more.<br \/>He suggested to the metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies to make by-laws that would make every landlord plant a tree in front of his\/her house. <br \/>\u201cThis law operates in some African countries, including Kenya and Uganda, and the law is working,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t              <!-- new position --><br \/>\n          <!-- new position end -->\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has been urged to implement the \u2018Polluter Pays Principle\u2019 to ensure a safer environment. &#13; 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