Source: newsthemegh.com
All Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) have been instructed by the Minister for Sanitation to use the bylaws on the upbringing of stray animals in their respective jurisdictions.
The minister claims that it is now necessary for the MMDCEs to seize and sell all stray animals in order to increase their Internally Generated Funds (IGF) at the Assemblies.
When Madam Cecilia Dapaah visited the Ga West Municipal Assembly in the Greater Accra Region to learn more about the Assembly’s practice of seizing stray animals for sale, she issued this directive.
She urged the different Assemblies to make use of the latter’s bylaws.
She pointed out that, similar to Amasaman, the mass apprehension of stray animals in the city will provide the Assemblies with additional cash.
When the animals are discovered on the streets, she pushed the Assemblies to seize them.
She used the occasion to applaud Clement Wilkinson, the MCE for Ga West, for taking the initiative. The MCE provided more details about the operation and said that the police in his district have discovered a new line of work by apprehending stray animals in the neighborhood.
He said that he had built a yard to keep impounded stray animals for sale due to the high rate of stray animal raising in the municipality.
Such stray animals are imprisoned in some jurisdictions, he noted.
In order to allow for the sale of the animals impounded as part of the exercise, he noted that the Assembly had reviewed its bylaws.
He bragged that he had earned GHS270,000 from the endeavor, money that might be utilized to create a CHPS complex for an underprivileged neighborhood.
He emphasized that some of the stray animals detained as part of the operation will be put up for sale by the Assembly next month.
He stated that there are 15 goats, 5 sheep, and 1 dog among the animals.
“We provide them at deeply discounted prices to encourage customers, but when they must be returned, the owners must pay a GHS 1,000 penalty. “This is to serve as a deterrent to people not to keep stray animals,” he continued.