The Senior Minister, Nana Yaw Osafo Marfo, has questioned the necessity in putting dustbins in locks as being done by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly to protect bins placed at vantage points across the city from getting stolen.
“I was just walking around and I discovered that they (the AMA) have introduced some dustbins.
And they’ve bolted this with a lock and put it on a concrete block and surrounded it such that nobody can remove them. Is this necessary” he worriedly asked.
He wondered why such extreme measures were needed in protecting dustbins considering the cost involved.
“The cost of putting a dustbin is far more than the dustbin itself. Yes, that is the lock, the concrete, the metal belt, and everything, is far more than the dustbin” he said.
The minister who attributed the cause of the situation to the mindset of the Ghanaian population said, “Elsewhere in the world these things are put at vantage points and nobody will attempt to take it to their house to put water in it. But here in Ghana if you leave them out unprotected, people will remove them to their houses for their personal use.”
The senior Minister said that the necessity to check sanitation issues makes the provision of dustbins and other effective measures imperative, and therefore called for a change of mindset among Ghanaians.
“So because of the mindset of our own people we’ve got to this extent to protect a dustbin. We are worried about sanitation and if we don’t provide containers for the rubbish there will be problems.
Now AMA has to go to this extent to provide these and when I saw it I felt very sad. This is a mindset problem and we should move away from this, it is not helping development” he said.
Source: Ghanaweb
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Fii! JDM, with all the money he illegally took away from us (Ghanaians), he is still been taking care of by Ghana with the tax payers money. So what are you talking about?
Both of you are ignoramuses. What fii is saying is that he should address all important issues. He shouldn't see only locked dustbin as issue and close his eyes about major corruption issues confronting the government. Has anyone heard him talking about corruption? But he thinks locked dustbin is more important than pds, ppd, etc.
Kudos Nana Ghanaba. That is typical of the NDC criticisms without alternative solutions. Ghana for you!
@fii, you see our problems as Ghanaians, instead of helping to address the issues, you go attacking. For all you know, they in v8 can afford better care in hospital whereas others can not. So the bins being preserved will stop littering and diseases will reduce. Please help in the education. I am ndc man but do not push away things that will help me all because it is being done by other party.
''People will remove them to their houses for their personal use.” What a hell! People removing them? Oh Amma Ghana!
My friend stop the hypocrisy and hit both side. If protecting dustbin is waste of resources how about you driving in v8, living in free government apartments? How about our president hiring private jet and travelling live the United nations secretary general, when teachers are not paid, no bed in hospitals etc. This kind of false concern should be thrown into the dustbin. People are taking bribes here and there, talk about that and stop creating an impression that if AMA are protecting their dustbin from being stolen it's a waste of money. The proper waste is at the Flagstaff house. 125 ministers and uncountable directors all over, that is what must be addressed.