Bekwai MP calls for dedicated sanitation fund to tackle Ghana’s waste crisis

Member of Parliament for Bekwai, Ralph Poku-Adusei has called for the establishment of a dedicated sanitation fund, arguing that existing financing for waste management is insufficient to provide lasting solutions to the country’s sanitation problems.

Poku-Adusei, a Deputy Ranking Member of Parliament’s Select Committee on Sanitation and Water Resources, made the call during the committee’s monitoring tour of the Volta and Oti regions.

The committee visited the Ho Integrated Recycling and Compost Plant (IRECOP) at Akrofu-Agorve, where it assessed waste collection, processing and recycling operations.

The committee’s chairman, John Oti Bless, described the Volta Region as the cleanest of the regions visited so far during the nationwide monitoring exercise.

But Poku-Adusei said funding constraints remained a major challenge for Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs).