Former Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo has condemned the establishment of the Sanitation Ministry, describing it as unnecessary.

According to her, the ministry since its inception has not performed its responsibilities, adding that the country looks dirtier despite the ministry being established to oversee the country's cleanliness.

She said the government did not need to form such a ministry when the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development could equally do the job of the Sanitation Ministry.

“Things are not working. Let's take sanitation. What sanitation laws don't we have? What ordinances? From the days of ordinances to regulations up to date, what enactments don’t we have? What departments don’t we have?” she said.

“Which was so totally unnecessary because it's not a ministry that is going to do the work. Sanitation is the work of local government. Sanitation ministry is an unnecessary ministry. Isn’t it? Isn’t it dirtier than it was before the ministry was set up? When was the last time you saw anyone other than neighbourhoods getting together to clean gutters? When was the last time you saw a sanitation worker doing anything? As for me, I haven’t seen one on my road or in my neighborhood,” she said.

“That's for cleaning the market. Yes. And half the time, it is the market women themselves who end up doing the cleaning. And they have to talk, talk, talk before they are even given the proper, sizeable tips in which to put the rubbish. And it piles up, and it piles up, and it piles up,” she added.

Her backlash comes on the heels of a discussion on some ministries in Ghana that are not performing their duties in an interview with TV3’s Alfred Ocansey, which was shared on X.

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