VIDEO:”Complete the 12 seater KVIP at Ngyiramoabakam to discourage open defecation” – Lawyer Blay tells STMA – Skyy Power FM

Residents of Ngyiramoabakam in the Ekuasie-Essaman electoral area in Sekondi are bitterly lamenting the lack of a public toilet facility in their community.

According to them it’s been over three years since the assembly member in the area Mr. Amoaku Mensah pulled down the only public toilet in Ngyiramoabakam community to reconstruct a new one for them but later abandoned the project at lentil level.

Residents in the community I am told have now resorted to defecating in the bushes close to the railway lines or the sea shore.

Ngyiramoabakam is one of the old communities in Sekondi and most of the houses there are without toilet facilities so they all fall on the demolished public toilet.

“They pulled down our only public toilet to build a new one for us in three days but it’s past three years; the project has been abandoned.”We have to find different unhygienic way to ease ourselves”, residents lament.

It’s not surprising that residents in Ngyiramoabakam and its surrounding communities are the worst culprit in the arrest of persons engaging in open defecation within the Sekondi Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA), that’s according to the STMA’s own records.

Meanwhile the NDC Parliamentary Candidate who was in the community on Sunday June 18, 2023 to help desilt their gutters to avert flooding in the coming days added his voice to the call for the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA) to complete the reconstruction of the community KVIP.

“It is obvious the project has stalled because I was here two years ago and I am back today. Hearing the same complaint over and over again of the lack of place of convenience for the residents here at Ngyiramoabakam, how can we leave in such a society in the 21st century.”

“The assembly as a matter of agency must quickly come and complete the abandoned 12-seater public toilet in Ngyiramoabakam for the people to discourage indiscriminate defecation in this community”’ he added.