{"id":451042,"date":"2017-12-31T09:58:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T09:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/31\/my-critics-are-ill-informed-sanitation-minister\/"},"modified":"2017-12-31T09:58:55","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T09:58:55","slug":"my-critics-are-ill-informed-sanitation-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/31\/my-critics-are-ill-informed-sanitation-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"My critics are ill-informed &#8211; Sanitation Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Saturday, 30 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>www.ghanaweb.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-30<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/11394244.295.jpg\" alt=\"Kofi Adda2\" title=\"Kofi Adda2\" width=\"295\" height=\"162\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Kofi Adda, Sanitation Minister<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1514714335_430_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Sanitation Minister, Kofi Adda has mounted a spirited defense of his tenure, describing his critics as, \u201cill-informed\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The work of the Sanitation Minister has come under scrutiny in the past one month, over concerns about filth in most parts of the country, particularly, the national capital.<\/p>\n<p>His competence has therefore been called into question, with some, using social media to demand his sack by President Akufo-Addo.<\/p>\n<p>But speaking to 3FM\/TV3\u2019s Kwakye Afreh-Nuamah, the Navrongo Central MP said, \u201cI am not bothered. I am not bothered in the sense that, I am doing the right thing. I am doing what is really required for us to change the system around permanently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He rejected all suggestions that his ministry is primarily responsible for cleaning dumped anywhere in the country.<\/p>\n<p>He told Afreh, \u201cAnybody who cares to know this, should know first of all that the ultimate task of sweeping and collecting on the streets is for the local assemblies. The ministry fashions out policies, the ministry does the monitoring and the ministry tires to get the resources for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Sanitation Minister did not end there. He also took a swipe at his critics saying all their bashing is \u201cbased on lack of education, they are ill-informed and I shudder to say, they may be mischievous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Having promised to make Accra the cleanest city in Africa by the end of his first term and with the setting up of a special ministry to handle sanitation issues, Ghanaians have high hopes that the next three years will see drastic change in the country\u2019s sanitation situation.<\/p>\n<p>It is therefore least surprising that, the operations of the sanitation ministry has come under such intense scrutiny recently.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 39 updated by: 39 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Saturday, 30 December 2017 Source: www.ghanaweb.com 2017-12-30 Kofi Adda, Sanitation Minister Sanitation Minister, Kofi Adda has mounted a spirited defense of his tenure, describing his critics as, \u201cill-informed\u201d The work of the Sanitation Minister has come under scrutiny in the past one month, over concerns about filth in most parts of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":402248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>My critics are ill-informed - Sanitation Minister - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/31\/my-critics-are-ill-informed-sanitation-minister\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"My critics are ill-informed - Sanitation Minister - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"General News of Saturday, 30 December 2017 Source: www.ghanaweb.com 2017-12-30 Kofi Adda, Sanitation Minister Sanitation Minister, Kofi Adda has mounted a spirited defense of his tenure, describing his critics as, \u201cill-informed\u201d The work of the Sanitation Minister has come under scrutiny in the past one month, over concerns about filth in most parts of the [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/31\\\/my-critics-are-ill-informed-sanitation-minister\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/31\\\/my-critics-are-ill-informed-sanitation-minister\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"My critics are ill-informed &#8211; 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