Keeping Ghana Clean: A Constitutional Analysis of State and Citizen Responsibilities for Environmental Sanitation

Similarly, the Vice President, Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, has urged Ghanaians to adopt responsible sanitation practices, cautioning that indiscriminate waste disposal obstructs drainage systems, contributes to flooding, and exposes communities to avoidable health and environmental risks. She observed that the consequences of poor sanitation often affect innocent members of the public who played no role in creating the problem.