He said in addition to massive clean-up exercises in the two cities, the people would embark on a protest against bad behavioural practices in an effort to promote healthy sanitation practices.
The move is a practical measure to fight the cholera outbreak in the two coastal cities.
It is also in response to government’s moderate celebration of this year’s Independence Day.
The Minister made the announcement when he visited some communities in Cape Coast to assess the sanitation situation in the wake of the outbreak.
The Minister also went to the Cape Coast Metro Hospital to visit some cholera patients at the facility’s treatment centre.
The Minister’s tour uncovered an awful sanitation situation in most of the communities, seeing open defecation and heavily choked gutters, pronounced in highly populated places like Brofoyedur and Amanful.
Over there, many households with toilets had connected their toilet facilities to the open gutters, which were choked with silt and plastic waste.
The seashore had become a dumping site and a defecation spot for most of the dwellers and the communities were swallowed by filth, chiefly plastic waste.
The terrible situation is compounded by an acute water shortage.
Mr Eduamuah and his team spotted people casually cooking and selling by open gutters filled with excrement.
He expressed utter shock at the situation and directed that immediate actions should be taken to alleviate the situation and ward off the cholera disease.
Mr Eduamoah was particularly worried about the economic consequences of the outbreak and its impact on the government’s development agenda.
Mr Eduamoah directed the Metropolitan Assembly to deploy tankers to supply water to citizens in the wake of the acute water shortage.
The water supply is expected to assist with the fight against the cholera outbreak.
The Regional Minister appealed to churches and mosques to make cleanliness and behavioural change an integral part of their sermons to support the fight against cholera.
“If we should leave the education and sensitisation to the environmental and sanitation departments and the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) alone, it won’t get anywhere,” he added.
GNA
