Ghana marks world toilet day today

Ghana is joining the entire world to celebrate the World toilet day despite saddled with several challenges with sanitation. According to the United Nation, the provision of proper toilets could save the lives of more than 200,000 children in the world. The countries where open defecation is most widely practiced are the same countries with the highest numbers of under-five child deaths, high levels of under-nutrition and poverty, and large wealth disparities. Moreover, over one billion people defecate in the open due to lack of proper toilet facilities. The Tamale Metropolitan Assembly has since been battling with the provision of toilet facilities due to a meager Common Fund allocation from central government, hence encouraging open defecation in the city. Even though, open defecation among residents in the Tamale metropolis cannot be solely attributed to the lack of toilets facilities, but rather their cultural believes and the myths surrounding one sitting on the stool of the other to ease himself. In 2013, the UN officially recognized November 19 as World Toilet Day in a bid to make sanitation for all a global development priority. But can the Tamale metropolitan Assembly live up to the expectation of providing every single resident with a place of convenience? 

Source:Saaka Alhassan