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A committee set up by Mr Akwesi Oppong-Ofosu, Minister of Local Government and Rural Development to look into sanitation problem in the country today presented the outcome of the results to him at the Ministry. Members of the committee involves the Metropolitan Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) were drawn from all the ten regions, presented an over view of what is happening in sanitation and waste management in the country. The Minister said, he requested the directorate for environmental health to convey the meeting so as to identify the problem areas in the various regions and find out how possible to solve them. According to the Minister, the ministry had not signed any contract or enters into agreement with any sanitation and waste management company for payment to be made; rather, MMDAs are responsible for such payment, since they collect revenues from the people. He said the presentations made by the MMDA would help the Ministry to come out with a lasting solution on curbing the menace and finding out how government would help in funding waste management in the country. Mr Oppong-Ofosu tasked all district assemblies to prepare an action plan to deal with waste management under their domain. Naa Lenason Demedeme, Acting Director, Environmental Head Service Department of the Ministry said the issue of sanitation should not be a problem that Ghana cannot solve, adding that MMDAs collect money from the people or traders so they should make sanitation management their responsibility. He lauded the presentation by the MMDAs and said this would enable the Ministry to find solution to problems that the assembly cannot solve. �The excises was a good one, and hope it would be sustained, adding, once it sustained Ghanaians would benefit it�, he added. Mr Felix Donkor Badu, representative from the Community Water and Sanitation Agency in the Greater Accra said during the assessment in the region, he realized that availability and acquisition of land for final solid and liquid waste disposal sites is a serious challenge for most of MMDAs in the regions