[ 2017-04-25 ]

The Region per the 2016 CDD and UNICEF league table scored zero per cent in sanitation

Court prosecutes landlords without toilet facilities
The Bolgatanga Magistrate Court presided by Mr
Osman Abdul-Hakeem, has begun an exercise to
prosecute landlords who do not have toilet
facilities attached to their buildings.

This follows a directive from the Upper East
Regional Coordinating Council in February to the
Environmental and Sanitation Unit of the
Bolgatanga Municipal Assembly, to strictly enforce
the by-laws on sanitation to help clean the filth
in the regional capital and halt open defecation.

The Region per the 2016 CDD and UNICEF league
table scored zero per cent in sanitation.

Last week, the Bolgatanga Municipal Assembly
arraigned two landlords, Douglas Adombire and
Ayindoo Richard and charged them for not having
toilet facilities in their houses and also failing
to construct proper drainage system to dispose of
waste water from their houses.

Both Landlords pleaded guilty to the charges and
were fined GH¢ 700.00 each or in default serve
three months prison term each.

In addition to the fines, the landlords were given
21 days to provide places of convenience in their
houses.

The court further fined Sunday Anabire, a donkey
meat seller to a fine of GH¢700.00 or serve
prison sentence for three months on three counts
of selling donkey meat without medical
certificate, operating in an unhygienic
environment and verbally assaulting Environmental
Officers on duty to inspect his work premises.

Anabire before the sentence pleaded guilty to the
charges.

Prosecuting, Mr Bornaa Evans of the Municipal
Assembly told the court that the Assembly had on a
number of occasions warned the two landlords to
ensure that they provided toilet facilities in
their homes and to clear the stagnant waste water
behind their buildings, but they failed to
oblige.

In the case of Anabire, the Prosecutor told the
court that the convict refused to act on warnings
issued by the Assembly to him to operate in
hygienic condition and to obtain medical
certificate.

The Presiding Judge warned that the court would
not hesitate to punish environmental and
sanitation offenders.

He indicated that most of the illnesses in Ghana
could have been prevented and government could
save money pushed to the health sector for other
development projects.

There were other three persons with similar
offenses who did not show up in court and the
court had a bench warrant to cause their arrest.

Source - todaygh.com

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