Aspiring Communication Officer for Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa Constituency, Edmund Fandoh Wilson, has criticized the government’s handling of sanitation after the recent nationwide cleanup exercise.
According to him, the campaign has failed to produce lasting results and address the country’s flooding challenges.
Speaking on the AM Club on Monday, July 13,2026, Mr Wilson said a two-day cleanup exercise alone cannot solve Ghana’s persistent drainage and flooding problems, insisting that a long-term maintenance strategy is needed.
“What I saw in the two days is not the solution to the current problems we have’’ he said.
He argued that drains must be regularly desilted and properly maintained after cleanup exercises, adding that the government should focus on sustained sanitation measures rather than short-term interventions.
“You don’t go back to the drawing board but pose for the cameras for 2 days straight, sweep and take rubbish into the rubbish and that’s as though treating symptoms and not the disease’’, he stated.
Fandoh further alleged that lives had been lost due to poor sanitation and urged the government to acknowledge what he described as shortcomings in its approach.
“The only system that sustains the country in terms of waste management system has been scrapped off and entrusted with the MMDCE’s and they have also failed us, so people die’’, he stated.
Mr Wilson argued that short-term cleanup exercises cannot provide a lasting solution to the country’s flooding challenges. He called for regular maintenance of drains to effectively reduce the impact of floods.
“The two-day general cleaning is not the solution to the flooding issue; the drains must be maintained properly’’ he said.
In contrast, the aspiring Communication Officer for Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa Constituency claimed that the NPP government did well by managing the drainage system and flood issues properly than the NDC and has failed in managing the issue.
“The NPP managed the situation when it was in power so the NDC should also take responsibility for the current situation and acknowledge that its approach has not produced the expected results” he stated.
His comments come of the back of a two day cleaning exercise declared by President John Dramani Mahama following devastations caused by floods after rains swept through parts of Accra and other regions, displacing families and the lose of properties. In Accra, 13 lives were lost with over 2,000 families displaced.
