Bekwai MP slams government’s ‘knee-jerk approach cleanup exercise’ as waste of taxpayer money
The Member of Parliament for Bekwai and Deputy Ranking Member on Parliament’s Committee on Sanitation and Water Resources, Ralph Poku-Adusei, has criticised government’s newly announced two-day national cleanup exercise, describing it as a knee-jerk reaction that will not solve Ghana’s underlying sanitation crisis and amounts to a waste of taxpayer money.
Speaking on Citi FM’s Eyewitness News on Tuesday, July 7, 2026, the Bekwai lawmaker argued that President John Dramani Mahama’s declaration of Friday, July 10, and Saturday, July 11, as National General Cleaning Day in the wake of the devastating June 29 floods that claimed about 13 lives and destroyed more than 7,000 households was addressing symptoms rather than the root causes of the country’s waste management failures.
He questioned what a two-day exercise could realistically achieve when waste is generated continuously across the country every day of the year.
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