Dead or alive: How non-payment of allowances is threatening the push to keep Ghana clean

When the local government ministry started the sanitation guards initiative in 2007, the goal was clear - to help make Ghana cleaner. 

But as laudable as the idea is, a lot of the guards who have been recruited over the years have dropped out of the program managed by Zoomlion and many are considering exiting as well due to non-payment of allowances stated in their contracts. 

The Fourth Estate's Elizabeth Abena Egyin and Edmond Boateng who spoke with some sanitation guards and municipal health officers join us on the podcast to tell us more about the why the guards have not been paid and the impact the non-payment of allowances is having on the work of the district and municipal health and environmental officers.