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Africa-Press – Ghana. <\/strong><\/span>Flag bearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has assured to collapse the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources and merge it with the Local Government Ministry.<\/b><\/p>\n

John Mahama, giving his reasons said President Akufo-Addo\u2019s \u2018making Accra the cleanest city in Africa\u2019 has become a fiasco despite creating a ministry to see to its realisation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will close down the Ministry of Sanitation, one to reduce expenditure and two, I don\u2019t see any use. Our country is dirtier than when there was no Ministry of Sanitation. Indeed, this country was cleaner when our country was under local government than as a standalone ministry and so we\u2019ll close down that ministry and we\u2019ll take the sanitation schedule back to local government,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith cleanliness, we think that it\u2019s the duty of the district assemblies. Every assembly has an obligation to make sure that its district is clean and so we must decentralise sanitation to the district level,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

John Mahama also relayed his intentions of merging the Transport and Aviation ministries, as well as Information and Communication, revealing that he will make appointment of DCEs based on how clean their districts are.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause we want to reduce government expenditure, it\u2019s not only the Sanitation Ministry, in transport, Aviation and Railway, we are going to close them down and send them to the transport ministry. We are going to combine Information and Communications again, and so we want to reduce the number of ministries,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo when we are going to change district chief executives and you have a dirty district, we\u2019ll remove you and bring someone who can make sure that the district is clean,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Ghana. Flag bearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has assured to collapse the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources and merge it with the Local Government Ministry. 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