Everywhere in Accra is neat and clean, CEO of private waste management company Zoomlion, Kofi Siaw Agyapong has said.
At a sanitation forum in Accra on Friday, 9 March, Mr Agyapong said to the amazement and laughter of his audience that: “When you look on the streets now, everywhere is clean, everywhere is neat.”
He explained: "I said neat because you have not moved to other African countries. When you move to The Gambia and other places and you come back to Accra, you think that Accra is the new London.
“Sometimes do the benchmarking with other countries that you have visited.
“I have visited some countries and I think we are doing well,” Mr Agyapong insisted, admitting, however, that: “Even though we are not there yet, we are doing well.”
At the same forum, Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Joseph Kofi Adda, however, said that Zoomlion is to blame for the filth in the capital.
Mr Adda said Zoomlion had failed to ensure that the waste in the environment are collected and disposed of properly.
He said: “Dr Agyapong [CEO of Zoomlion Ghana Limited and Chairman of the Jospong Group of Companies], I’m sorry to disappoint you here…finding solid waste everywhere I feel really disappointed and if you were to ask me why this thing is so, I will put the blame squarely on Zoomlion. Zoomlion, to me, is the cause of it”.
Mr Adda said it was the responsibility of the private waste management company to supervise the cleaning of the environment. However, “they are not sweeping and collecting everyday”.
According to him President Akufo-Addo had indicated at the National Sanitation Campaign launch that as waste is generated daily the proper disposal of the waste should occur daily.
For him, the sweeping, collection, transportation and disposal of waste must occur daily without leaving huge piles of rubbish all over the city. By his assessment, the performance of Zoomlion in that regard has been below par and more effort is needed to tackle the sanitation problem in the capital adding: “I don’t think in the past year or so, Zoomlion has done so well enough”.
Source: classfmonline.com
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ACCRA IS NOT DIRTY IT IS THE PEOPLE LIVING IN IT....GHANAIANS
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CREATE JOBS. BUILD A BROOM MANUFACTURING FACTORY. EMPLOY FARMERS TO HARVEST PALM BRANCHES AND COCONUT BRANCHES. EMPLOY THE YOUTH TO PRODUCE BROOMS. SUPPLY EVERY YOUTH WITH A BROOM. GIVE CONTRACTS TO THE YOUTH TO CLEAN THEIR OWN ENVIRONMENT. EMPLOY THE YOUTH TO SWEEP THE COUNTRY. EVERY PROBLEM IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO CREATE JOBS TO SOLVE THE PROBLEMS. SINCE GHANA HAS A LOT OF SANITATION PROBLEMS, IT MEANS IT HAS A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES TO CREATE JOBS. POSITIVE SIDE OF THINGS.
'Accra is not a dirty city, the people in it are' - Mensa Otabil fumes
If he was referring to the London I live in, then the man needs to repent. Because these kinds of lies coupled with his company's incompetence can send him to hell. His heaven is on this earth, due to the amount of monies being paid to him for no work done. It is criminal for him to even make that assertion in the face of all the filth engulfing Ghana under his watch.
I think he does not know what is clean because he lives in a pigsty.
This kind of people are dangerous to our nation.
Is everywhere in Accra neat? This man should be taken to Odokor on the Keneshie-Mallam road where cabbage have pilled up for months. How does this take Ghanaians for?
i simply don't understand why the state should continue paying so much money to such an -i-d-i-o-t-i-c and greedy person like this siaw agyapong. he is clueless as to what environmental cleanliness is all about!
siaaa man. now i know you have a mental problem. such iddioootic talk. siaaaa. your mother wai. abbboooa