THE Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has intensified efforts to monitor waste management contractors who cart refuse from the various collection points in the metropolis.
The exercise, which started early this year, has not only improved sanitation in Kumasi, but has also created awareness among residents on the need to develop a positive attitude towards proper waste disposal.
As part of the measures, the metropolis has been zoned into 10 areas with each zone assigned to a particular waste management contractor who carts refuse from various collection points at regular intervals to prevent spillage of refuse in residential areas and other refuse collection points.
The Public Relations Officer of KMA, Mr Clement Kegeri said the Chief Executive Officer of KMA, Mr Samuel Sarpong was personally involved in the monitoring exercise to ensure that all waste management contractors strictly abided by the refuse collection measures adopted by the assembly.
Speaking to the Daily Graphic about the importance of the monitoring exercise, Mr Kigeri said the KMA had also “involved key members in the various zones in the monitoring exercise to enable them to report any recalcitrant waste management contractor who refuses to do his work.
“We have sustained the monitoring exercise since we started, and so far it has been very successful. The success story stems from the fact that we have a chief executive who is not only personally involved in an important exercise such as sanitation but also bent on reducing filth in the metropolis to the barest minimum to enable residents to enjoy better health” he explained.
Mr Kigeri cited the Moro Market at Krofrom, where AMA threatened the waste management contractor who was reneging on his responsibilities “to jolt him into action and since then the Moro Market could be described as one of the success stories so far as regular collection of refuse is concerned”.
He said the KMA had made it clear that it was not prepared to renew the contract of contractors who failed to live up to expectation.
Mr Kegeri said the success story of the KMA so far, had encouraged the assembly to sustain the exercise to improve environmental hygiene in the metropolis.
On how to deal with refuse that drop on the road from moving refuse trucks, Mr Kigeri said contractors had already been advised to cover trucks with nets and wondered why some had refused to comply with the directives.
He warned against such attitude since the assembly would charge those who flout the regulations.
He also charged residents to develop positive attitudes of disposing waste by putting waste in litter bins placed at vantage points in the metropolis.
He said littering was an offence under the KMA by-laws and therefore urged residents to be law-abiding by co-operating with the KMA to turn the city not only into a centre of business but also an attractive residential area.
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