Thursday 31st October, 2019
By
Seth Danquah, GNA
Sekondi, October 31,
GNA – The Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly has put in place a taskforce
to inspect, arrest and prosecute residents of high class residential areas in
the Metropolis who fail to keep their environment clean.
Mr Anthony Sam the
Metropolitan Chief Executive who made this known in an interview with GNA at
Sekondi pointed out that, despite the frantic efforts to rid the metropolis of
waste and to prevent disease transmission in the communities some residents within
areas like Beach Road, Airport Ridge, Chapel Hill, SIC and other first class
residential areas failed to keep their places tidy.
He bemoaned the
situation where residents from these first class residential areas did not
participate in the Sanitation Day Exercise and urged Assembly Members of the
respective areas to appeal to their electorates to participate effectively and
efficiently during the exercise to rid the city of filth.
Mr Sam pointed out
that the performance of service providers have increased considerably since
they have been able to expand their service coverage by registering many more
clients to the house-to-house waste collection services.
He said that the
efforts of the service providers have yielded positive results thereby reducing
the incidence of indiscriminate /clandestine dumping of solid waste within the
communities.
The MCE said,
thirty-two containers have been positioned at vantage areas in Takoradi
Sub-Metro, Sekondi Sub-Metro and Essikado Ketan Sub-Metro and that management
intends adding one service provider to Essikado-Ketan Sub-Metro since the area
keeps growing rapidly.
Touching on how the
Assembly was managing liquid waste in the Metropolis, the MCE hinted that the
scheduled maintenance of the liquid waste treatment facility at the Landfill
Site has been carried out as planned, thereby enhancing the performance of the
Septage Treatment Facility.
He was happy to
announce that the sludge removed from the facility for the first time in its
operations was used to produce compost/manure which can be used for both
agricultural and horticultural purposes
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