The Greater Accra Regional Second Vice Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Eric Nartey Yeboah, politically known as Chairman Dollar has handed over a multi-purpose toilet facility to two communities in the Madina municipality in his capacity as a former Chairman of the constituency.
The 23 seater toilet for each of the communities: Kweiman near Ayi Mensa and Pantang within the La Nkwantanang Municipality of the Greater Accra Region worth Ghc 1.6 million is disability friendly with separate toilet and shower for the aged, single room self-contained for the care-taker and large spaces to serve as a playing ground for children.
The donation is in fulfillment of a promise he made to them to replace the old facilities and to also promote good health among the people to reduce open defecation – the practice of defecating in fields, forests, bushes, water bodies or other open spaces.
He told the media that he had promised the people as the then chairman of the constituency, and as part of “my campaign tour we were informed that the community needed this facility and NPP Madina promised them and Lo and behold we have delivered on our promised”.
He said the huge facilities cost a lot and the ups and downs that comes with it, but “I have leant a lot and by His grace we have completed them and today we are here to commission and hand them over to the community to be managed by committees made up of opinion leaders”.
Chief of Otinibi – one of the communities within the La-NKwantan Municipality, Nii Adjei Kweidza Mansah IV, was grateful to Eric Nartey Yeboah and the NPP for honouring the promise made to them.
“This has come at the right time, because we have an old structure which is in a bad state and if you are to visit there, you will cry for us. So we are grateful for this facility,” he stated.
By Francis Edzorna Mensah