By: Franklin ASARE-DONKOH
The 2024 flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. John Dramani Mahama, says he will scrap the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources and replace it under Local Government Ministry if he becomes president in 2025.
Mr. Mahama made this comment when addressing students, lecturers, faculty members at a Special Public Lecture held at the Accra campus of the Wisconsin International University College on Wednesday, April 3, 2024.
Mr. Mahama emphasised the need for a comprehensive development strategy that diversifies focus within the Water and Sanitation sector.
In addition, he has suggested consolidating several other underperforming ministries, including the Aviation and Railways Ministries, into the Transport Ministry.
“We will close down the Ministry of Sanitation, one, to reduce expenditure and two, I don’t see any use. The country is dirtier than when there was no Ministry of Sanitation.
Indeed, this country was cleaner when sanitation was under Local Government than as a standalone Ministry and we will close that Ministry and take the Sanitation schedule back to Local Government because we want to reduce government expenditure.
It is not only the Sanitation Ministry, in Transport, Aviation and Railways, we are going to close them down and send them back to the Trasport Ministry. We are going to combine Communications and Information again. So we want to reduce the number of ministries,” he stated.
