The Environment Service Providers Association (ESPA) has said inadequate funding from government is hampering its effort to manage the tonnes of garbage generated daily in the country.
A press statement signed by the Executive Secretary of the Association, Ama .A. Ofori Atta noted that �our commitment to fulfilling our role in ensuring sound sanitation in the areas of our operation is unquestionable�. however, our efforts at providing this critical service is hindered by many factors key of which is inadequate funding from government.�
Refuse generated by residents have not been collected for almost a month now.
Although residents have asked the Accra Metropolitan Assembly to call the refuse collection companies to order, the problem is still lingering.
Mr. Okoe Vanderpuije in that regard noted that the Kpone site is currently the only appropriate landfill site for dumping of refuse.
But the Association noted that aside the financial assistance, the Kpone Landfill site is also operating below capacity due to frequent electricity power cuts, adding that the problem is making it difficult to operate the weighbridge equipment to record data.
�The government�s indebtedness to the operator has also made it impossible for the Association to buy fuel and lubricants to operate the heavy machines at site,� it said
The Association in that regard requested that the urgent payment to the operator of the Landfill should be made �so that it can operate at full capacity, and halt the piling up of garbage in the Accra and Tema metropolises.�
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