The dumping of faecal waste into the sea at Lavender Hill may contaminate the fishes. The practice poses serious health threat to the consumer of these fishes at Ghana.

The practice of dumping the untreated faeces into the sea shows that Ghana is incapable of dealing with more than 50% of the faecal waste. A latest Ghana Demographic and Health survey reveals that sanitation-related diseases affect more than 70% of all cases reported in the year 2008.

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly and the local government ministry are putting efforts to deal with the serious problem of waste. The authorities are spending 90% of its income on waste management. Despite the expenditure and all the efforts, no potential solution of the problem has been found.

The Accra Sewerage Improvement Project (ASIP) and the Urban Environmental Sanitation Project (UESP) would set up four treatment plants in the city to deal with the problems of waste management.

Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, Deputy Local Government and Rural Development Minister, says that the practice of pumping the untreated faecal waste at Lavender Hill near Korle Gornor may produce unhealthy fishes.