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"Settle your debt," AMA say to Ghana @
50 Secretariat
Accra, June 26, Ghanadot/GNA-The Accra Metropolitan Assembly
has appealed to the Ghana @ 50 Secretariat to pay the
Assembly a total of 900,000 new Ghana cedis for work done
for the Secretariat during the Ghana @ 50 celebrations.
The Assembly has also called for the release of its special
allocation of the Heavily Indebted Poor Country’s fund to
enable it to carry out its duties.
Speaking during a working visit by the Parliamentary Select
Committee on Environment, Science and Technology on
Thursday, Mr. Stanley Adjiri Blankson, Metropolitan Chief
Executive of the AMA said waste collection contractors were
not doing their work because the AMA was not paying them.
He noted that the AMA was in the process of rezoning the
metropolis in order to make waste collection contractors
more responsible and dedicated to their various zones.
“As a result of the rezoning, the 18 contractors that the
Assembly had has been reduced to 13. They shall work for
five months after which only the competent ones will have
their contracts renewed”, he emphasized.
He said although the AMA had 13 units to take care of, about
60 percent of its internally generated revenue was invested
in the Waste Management Unit alone due to the huge filth
created in the Metropolis.
He said so far, all the 39 identifiable heaps in the
metropolis had been cleared by the waste management company,
Zoomlion Ghana Limited, and that henceforth it would be
responsible for clearing all minor heaps of filth in the
city.
Mr. Blankson noted that the current waste dumping site at
Oblogo was almost full and would be closed down in August.
“As a matter of urgency, the AMA is to develop another
quarry site at Sabah near Weija as the new site. We also
appeal to the Government to finance the Kwabenya Landfill
project which has been on the drawing board for years”, he
added.
Mr. Kwame Owusu Frimpong, Chairman of the Parliamentary
Select Committee appealed to the AMA to do everything within
its jurisdiction to improve upon the sanitary condition of
the Metropolis in order to avoid the outbreak of disease.
GNA
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