By Edzorna Francis Mensah
The Greater Accra Regional Second Vice Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Eric Nartey Yeboah politically known as Chairman Dollar has handed over multi-purpose toilet facilities to two communities in Madina as former Chairman of the constituency.
The 23-seater toilet for each of the communities: Kweiman near Ayimensa and Pantang within the La Nkwantanang Municipality of Greater Accra Region worth 1.6 Million Ghana cedis is disability friendly with separate toilet and shower for the aged, single room self-contained for the care-taker and large spaces which will serve as a playing ground for the children.
The donation was in fulfillment of a promise he made to them to replace the old facilities and to also promote good health among the people with a special aim to reduce open defecation-the practice of defecating in fields, forests, bushes, bodies of water, or other open spaces.
He told gbcghanaonline.com that he had promised the people as the chairman of the constituency then, and as part of “my campaign tour we were informed that the community needed this facility and NPP Madina promised them and Lo and behold we delivered on our promised”.
He disclosed that, it wasn’t an easy journey because it was a huge facility that cost a lot coupled with up and down but “I have learnt a lot and by his grace we have completed them and today we are here to commission and hand over to the community to manage by committee made up with opinion leaders”.
With gratitude, the Chief of Otinibi within La Nkwantanang Municipality, Nii Adjei Kweidza Mansah IV, was grateful to Eric Nartey Yeboah and the NPP for honouring a promise made to them.
According to him, “this has come at the right time, because we have an old structure which is in a bad state and if you are to visit there, you will cry for us. So we are grateful for this facility”.
