Aspiring assembly members talk about sanitation

Takoradi, Sept. 4, GNA - Environmental sanitation and related issues were the dominant campaign messages of aspiring members of the Shama Ahanta East Metropolitan Assembly (SAEMA) when the Electoral Commission mounted a forum for them to meet the people. Most of the aspirants asked to be given the mandate to enable them to provide community development projects including good drainage system and to check flooding that had been a problem for many areas in the Metropolis.

They also expressed their ability to mobilise the people to provide resources and communal labour on projects such as street lighting, schools refuse dumps, public toilets and the establishment of watchdog committees to supplement the efforts of security personnel to check crime.

Mr. John Davis, incumbent Assembly member for Anaji, told the Ghana News Agency that sanitation was a major problem and therefore he was not surprised that it had taken the centre stage of campaign messages. Mr. Davis said the Waste Management department of the Assembly had done enough to ensure clean environment for the people and that it was left to the people to sustain this programme and enforce byelaws on sanitation.