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Cecilia Dapaah (left) and Simon Osei-Mensah during thepresentation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

People dropping litter,\nincluding from vehicles, face on-the-spot fines and other penalties as\nGovernment supports Metropolitan Municipal an"},"modified":"2019-07-04T02:15:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T02:15:51","slug":"spot-fines-for-littering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/04\/spot-fines-for-littering\/","title":{"rendered":"Spot Fines For Littering –"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

\n

Cecilia Dapaah (left) and Simon Osei-Mensah during the
presentation<\/strong><\/p>\n

People dropping litter,
\nincluding from vehicles, face on-the-spot fines and other penalties as
\nGovernment supports Metropolitan Municipal and District Assemblies to tackle
\nlittering in their communities.<\/p>\n

Minister of Sanitation and
\nWater Resources, Cecilia Abena Dapaah, who gave the hint, said her Ministry
\nwould partner Assemblies across the country to use penalties to deal with
\nanti-social behavior by hitting litter louts in the pocket.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the presentation
\nof 1,000 litter bins to Assemblies in the Ashanti Region, the Minister stated
\nthat collecting litter costs Government several millions of cedis a year, and
\nthat the time has come for every citizen to take responsibility for their
\nlitters.<\/p>\n

Sanitation bye-laws of MMDAs
\nempower them to set on-the spot fines against littering which has become a
\nscourge on the environment, and taxpayers\u2019 money is wasted in cleaning it up,
\nwhich could be better spent in communities.<\/p>\n

Madam Dapaah said a total of
\n20,000 litter bins will be distributed to all the Assemblies across the 16
\nregions as part of Government\u2019s wider litter strategy to tackle issues towards
\nsaving the environment.<\/p>\n

According to her, the litter
\nbins, which are intended to prevent rubbishes from scattering in cities and
\ncommunities, would help in tackling the issue of waste getting into the marine
\nenvironment.<\/p>\n

The Ashanti Regional Minister,
\nSimon Osei-Mensah, who received the litter bins on behalf of the Assemblies,
\nasserted that the new project will help reduce the amount of litter that often
\nplagues the streets and chokes gutters.<\/p>\n

For him, the damaging effects
\nthat waste can have on the environment call for other punishments, including
\nsweeping of the streets by litter louts<\/p>\n

He said he looked forward to seeing the litter bins helping cities and communities to make a real difference in their areas, adding that law enforcement is the only way out of the present sanitation predicament of the country.<\/p>\n

From Ernest Kofi Adu, Kumasi<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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