The National Commission for Civic Education, (NCCE), has raised concerns about the lack of political will to enforce sanitation laws and prosecute offenders.
Speaking at the launch of a sanitation project, “Living A Life of Cleanliness, LALOC” in Tema, the Metro Director of the NCCE, Isaac Kwame Antwi said the absence of dustbins in rooms and compounds of most households make it difficult for pupils to have practical sanitation lessons from schools.
The launch is an initiative of the first runner of the Miss Metro Tema 2018, Ernestina Dika. Over the years, the Miss Metro Ghana Foundation has used the beauty pageantry to as a tool to create awareness and drive sensitisation on the need to keep the environment clean. The launch by Madam Dika focused on basic schools in the Metropolis. She explained further.
” The project is about educating children in basic schools to enable them properly manage waste……we believe that theb adults are already corrupted and their minds can hardly be changed, but with the younger ones we can easilt influence their behavior”
The Tema Metro Director of the NCCE, Isaac Kwame Antwi said the difficulties children face in practicing what they learn from school is a worry.
He called on the MMDAs to make use of the Unit Committees in enforcing the laws on sanitation. Mr Antwi pledged that the NCCE will support the project.
Story by Nathaniel Nartey
