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National Youth Organizer of the largest opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Sammy Awuku believes the way the NDC government is trying to get the legislators to enforce by-laws to make the National Sanitation Day is irrational. According to him, the concept of the national sanitation day should not be forced on Ghanaians as taxes have already been forced on them towards the sanitation exercise in the country. Speaking on Oman FM�s Morning Show, Sammy Awuku reiterated that Ghanaians have already fulfilled their part of the bargain by paying taxes for the Assemblies to use to contract sanitation companies to carry out this exercise in the country. He insisted that the refusal of government to give the funds due to the Assemblies should not be blamed on Ghanaians as it is absurd to see the government forcing citizens to clean the streets aside the payment given to the sanitation companies to carry out such exercises. He argued that every city authority responsible for the various districts, Municipalities and the Metropolis has a taskforce to carry out the same sanitation purpose, but he wondered why government is overburdening Ghanaians with the responsibility which sanitation companies have been contracted to do. �We are beginning to accept mediocrity as our way of life. In this country, there is tax over everything we purchase with the common interest that the government will use the revenue for the common good of our people...we have contracts with sanitation companies for this same purpose the government has asked us to do; so why are we paying those companies?�, he quizzed. �I disagree with those who are trying to use the legislation means to make it compulsory for Ghanaians because you have already forced them to pay taxes toward the sanitation exercise...if we don�t take care, a time will come, we will get to some realms of absurdities that we will carry our own faeces after we have paid for the service,� he chided.