Teshie, a coastal town in the Ledzokuku Krowor Municipal District, a district in the Greater Accra Region, the capital city of Ghana cries over filth in the town.
Teshie is the ninth most populous settlement in Ghana. It is rich in diversity as a result of the country's current democracy and development program. Teshie is believed to have been in existence for over 300 years but over the past years, the town has really faced enormous challenges over filth.
In a discussion with a one young man, Elvis Adjetey, an inhabitant of Gbugla a place in Teshie said, "over the past twenty years I have been in Teshie, dumping of refuse at inappropriate places is what have been going on here. People dump refuse anywhere they like. It can be on the road way, at the seashorse, behind people’s houses, to the extent that when it rains people dump them into the flowing water”. In his further speech, I discovered that due to these activities of the people, many children are being affected by diseases such as cholera and malaria.
Many traders sell food by the roads where gutters are filled with filth. Due to this, flies settle on the food been sold. Thus, when children buy from such places, they take in contaminated food which brings about cholera. Others are also suffering from malaria as a result of mosquitoes breeding in stagnant waters, empty can filled with water etc. Due to these factors, many lives are being lost.
Interviewing quiet a number of people, they said they need the intervention of the government because this has been a major problem facing it’s inhabitants especially those around the coast.
