By Winifred Bulus
Ghana’s Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Joseph Kofi Adda, has promised to give adequate attention to sanitation in the country.
This decision according to the minister would help attain United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) officially known as Transforming our world.
The minister stated this during an interview after addressing the Stakeholders’ Dialogue on the way for the new ministry created earlier in the year by President Nana Akufo-Addo.
“We have to move on further to create the institutional arrangements that are required, backed by law to have something comparable to what exists in other countries to be able to create policy and design programs and projects that will be effective in delivering the required services.
“I think these are all the things that should encompass the general vision that the president has to improve sanitation in the country,” the minister said.
Adda also expressed his recognition of the country’s achievements in the aspect of sanitation but also gave room for improvement in order to meet with global standard of sanitation.
Earlier in the year, the country’s president, Nana Akufo-Addo created a new Ministry which was to the Ministry for Sanitation and Water Resource.
The ministry was created out of the Ministry of Water Resources, Works and Housing.