GH¢2 billion was collected to clean Ghana. So why is Accra still this filthy?

The levy was designed to fund a specific set of interventions: improving air quality, building and upgrading waste treatment facilities, supporting landfill management, running fumigation and disinfection exercises, and constructing sanitation facilities to help eliminate open defecation.

On one hand, there's a real accountability question: hundreds of millions of cedis collected specifically to fund sanitation infrastructure, with core objectives like ending open defecation, left completely unfunded.

One figure stands out: GH¢0 was spent on constructing sanitation facilities to eliminate open defecation, despite that being one of the levy's own stated core objectives.