Ghana: MPs Advocate Regular Funding for Waste Management

The Parliamentary Select Committee on Sanitation and Water Resources has strongly advocated a dedicated funding source to tackle the country’s persistent sanitation challenges, ensuring reliable payments to private sector service providers.

The Committee’s Chairman, Mr John Kwabena Oti Bless, emphasised that a permanent funding mechanism was essential because “waste generation is a daily problem.”

He added that with a dedicated funding source, the government would be able to pay service providers…