The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has urged residents in Kumasi, to respect the Metropolitan Assembly's bye-laws on sanitation to help reduce the huge budget on waste management.
The KMA spends an average of GH�50,000 every month to lift tonnes of waste generated by the people.
Mr. Charles Mensah, Public Relations Officer of the Assembly's Waste Management Department, said it was time environmental sanitation was recognised as a shared responsibility between the assembly and residents.
They should therefore avoid haphazard dumping of refuse and defecating and urinating at unauthorised places.
Mr. Mensah told the Ghana News Agency in Kumasi on Friday, that the Environmental Sub-Committee of the KMA has drawn up a sensitisation programme to create awareness and help change the bad public attitude to environmental cleanliness.
The Assembly would be using the mass media, especially the radio stations as the main tool to achieve the goal.
He called on corporate bodies and research institutions to partner the KMA to recycle the large volumes of waste in the metropolis to serve useful purposes.
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