President Nana Akufo-Addo has bemoaned the practice of open defecation in some parts of the country, which, according to him, is eroding sanitation improvement efforts in the country.
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Mr Akufo-Addo said: “It is unfortunate that in 2019, we will still have to revisit this topicâ€.
Delivering his third state of the nation address to parliament on Thursday, 21 February 2019, the president charged Ghanaians to desist from the practice, adding that: “Open defecation cannot be a characteristic of the country that is working to be transformed economically and to be counted among the developed nations of the worldâ€.
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He, therefore, noted that it was imperative that every household gets a toilet.
Source: Classfmonline.com