Ghana plans to launch an aggressive sanitation campaign as the country races against time to meet the UN’s Millennium Development Goals by 2015.

Ghana is currently off-track in meeting the MDG goal on sanitation and struggling to keep pace with demand for better environmental sanitation.

But after inspecting an engineered bio-system President Mahama announced a major campaign would soon be launched to turn things around.

Persons who queue to use public toilets may therefore soon heave a sigh of relief because the President announced that as part of the sanitation campaign the government will distribute what he described as small toilets to areas where residents have no access to such facilities.

He made the remarks at Christ the King Catholic Church where he inspected the engineered bio system which seeks to improve the current sanitation situation in the country.

The biodiversity system, an innovation of Biofil Toilet System, a Ghanaian company, separates fecal matter from water which can be reused.

Inventor of the system Kwaku A. Anno told President John Mahama his company has also designed a system by which water used for handwashing is trapped and channeled into the water closet for use.

In response, President John Mahama admitted the poor performance of Ghana in achieving the Millennium Development Goals on sanitation but added the sanitation drive to be started by government will improve the country’s performance.  

He indicated government’s intent to adopt and expand the bio toilet system which uses minimal water for the benefit of urban slums in particular after an assessment and approval by the ministries of Local Government and Rural Development and Environment Science, Technology and Innovation.