{"id":462504,"date":"2018-02-08T02:10:48","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T02:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/08\/sanitation-problem-will-not-be-fixed-overnight-kofi-adda\/"},"modified":"2018-02-08T02:10:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T02:10:48","slug":"sanitation-problem-will-not-be-fixed-overnight-kofi-adda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/08\/sanitation-problem-will-not-be-fixed-overnight-kofi-adda\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanitation problem will not be fixed overnight &#8211; Kofi Adda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Thursday,  8 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>primenewsghana.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-08<\/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\/62575973.295.jpg\" alt=\"Kofi Adda1\" title=\"Kofi Adda1\" width=\"295\" height=\"155\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Joseph 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=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1518055848_595_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">The Minister of Sanitation and Water resources, Joseph Kofi Adda has urged Ghanaians not to expect that the huge sanitation problems in the country will be fixed overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Some Ghanaians have demanded the dismissal of the Sanitation Minister over his failure to deal with sanitation issues in the country a year after his appointment. The calls for the Minister to be sacked intensified after he recently assigned people to clean up refuse near the Australian High Commission right after the High Commissioner&#8217;s tweet went viral.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the public have also suggested to the President that the Sanitation ministry should be scrapped and its stipulated role played out by the Local government Ministry to deal with the filth, especially in the Capital.<\/p>\n<p>However, the sanitation minister, Joseph Kofi Adda who dismissed calls for his dismissal insisting he has been effective, assured that Accra will be the cleanest city by the middle of this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe overnight solution people are looking for in the Sanitation Ministry you\u2019ll not get that\u2026 You want the Minister to go out there tomorrow with a broom and wheelbarrow to collect the waste, that\u2019s not the Minister\u2019s job. I think they have to go back and understand what is the role of the Minister to start with and how should he collaborate with the others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI bet you, by the middle of this year, you\u2019ll find a totally transformed sanitation sector in this country that will last the test of time and that\u2019s where I\u2019ll be most effective.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b><\/b>Sanitation Minister criticizes Australian High commissioner<\/p>\n<p>Sanitation and Water Resources Minister, Joseph Kofi Adda recently criticized the Australian High Commissioner to Ghana for taking to social media to complain about filth in parts of Accra.<\/p>\n<p>He described the Diplomat\u2019s claims as baseless, adding that the group of sanitation workers spotted in the Cantonments area clearing up the refuse were already scheduled to be there as part of an exercise by the Ministry to ensure that the entire country is cleaned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReally it\u2019s not the High Commissioner who is telling us what to do. We have a programme, it\u2019s just that we\u2019ve not really done enough good job in keeping up with what we\u2019re supposed to do. But we have mechanisms, we have people deployed to these places, so we appreciate the concern of the High Commissioner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we think that he should have contacted us in the Ministry or contacted the Chief Executive of the AMA, to understand our side of the story to really make sure that the right people are there to do what the ought to do. Going on social media doesn\u2019t really address this matter from a government to government point of view. I think on that note, he\u2019s not done well, nonetheless, we\u2019ve had the results.\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 33 updated by: 33 --><\/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 Thursday, 8 February 2018 Source: primenewsghana.com 2018-02-08 Joseph Kofi Adda, Sanitation Minister The Minister of Sanitation and Water resources, Joseph Kofi Adda has urged Ghanaians not to expect that the huge sanitation problems in the country will be fixed overnight. 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