A healthy mind, it is said, is in a healthy body. And a body can be healthy if it lives in a healthy environment.
Apparently, the Greater Accra Regional Minister, Sheikh I C Quaye, is alive to this simple and age-long adage, and this has culminated into his cautioning the residents of Alajo, a suburb of Accra, to desist from defecating in gutters meant for the free flow of water.
According to media reports, it was to halt this unhygienic practice that the Minister’s office was constructing a 20-seater first-class place of convenience (water closet) at a cost of GH¢495,000 for the community.
Good show! The concern expressed by the Regional Minister is genuine. Defecating into gutters in some parts of the capital city has become a sub-culture – which is grossly repugnant and awfully abominable.
It is happening almost everywhere within the Metropolis and for that matter, The Statesman finds it an arduous task to cite particular suburbs as places where unscrupulous elements in the society use as their toilets.
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