Ten persons have been prosecuted in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region for various sanitation offences by a Prempeh Court presided over by His Lordship Kwaku Ansah Akrofi and Her Worship Deborah Gyaawa Donkoh.
The offences included insanitary surroundings, overgrown weeds, abandoned items, burning of waste within residential premises, keeping an unvaccinated dog, discharging effluent into public drains, and maintaining insanitary washrooms.
The court sentenced six offenders to 100 penalty units each, two offenders to 140 penalty units each, and one offender to 80 penalty units.
The prosecution follows a conviction secured by the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) as part of its renewed sanitation enforcement exercise.
To ensure the metropolis is kept clean, the KMA’s task force continued its enforcement exercise at Dichemso, where several offenders were arrested.
“While some complied, others claimed they were unaware of the sanitation laws or had not heard the public education campaign, and some even locked themselves indoors to avoid the exercise,” said the Assembly.
The KMA reminded the public that ignorance of the law is no excuse, as it will not temper mercy for anyone caught committing sanitation offences.
