Story: Nana Konadu Agyeman, Koforidua
ZOOMLION Ghana Limited, a private waste management company, has provided a refuse collection vehicle for the New Juaben Municipal Assembly in the Eastern Region.
The vehicle, which has a public address system, will be used by the members of the assembly to educate residents in their respective communities on how to keep their surroundings clean. It will also be used for a house-to-house refuse collection at a token price.
The project, to be managed by the assembly members who will pay for the truck within a five-year period, is aimed at raising environmental awareness among the people and ensuring prompt refuse collection in the municipality.
Making the presentation at a short ceremony in Koforidua, the Eastern Regional Supervisor of Zoomlion, Mr Benjamin Eshun, said his outfit had decided to present the vehicle to the assembly as part of efforts to involve the people in waste management.
The initiative, which formed part of the company’s sanitary package for metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies, would soon be extended to other districts in the region, he said.
The New Juaben Municipal Chief Executive, Nana Adjei Boateng, said since maintaining a clean environment was a collective responsibility of the residents of the area, “we must contribute our quota towards management of waste in our communities.”
He, therefore, commended Zoomlion for introducing private participation initiative in waste management in the area, and expressed the hope that the effort would encourage assembly members to educate the people on the need to keep their surroundings neat and tidy to enhance their health status.
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