Nana Frimpomaa Akosua Sarpong Kumankumah, the newly elected flagbearer of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), has asserted that the pollution of Ghana’s water bodies by illegal miners is a result of institutional failures and not an overnight occurrence.
She emphasized that the crisis is neither sudden nor complex but stems from the actions of ordinary Ghanaians seeking livelihoods.
Meanwhile, Dr. Clifford Braimah, Managing Director of the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL), has warned that Ghana could face a severe water crisis if immediate improvements are not made to water treatment processes.
In an interview she said, “They wanted to make sure they could take care of themselves and their families. They have not erred, but the institutions have. All these problems are due to the institutions”.
“If you do not have proper institutions working, and there is this level of corruption, that’s where I talk about governance. Government, according to Abraham Lincoln, is a government of the people, for the people, and by the people”.
She explained that the government is central to the essence of democracy.
“If we dissolve our structures, we bring structures to govern the people, and it has now become by some people, for some people, not for the people. So, we have missed it—the institution, the governance of this country”.
