{"id":611495,"date":"2019-04-29T19:26:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T19:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<figure class=\"fff post-thumbnail\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img class=\"post_layout_5_img\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/04\/Seth.jpg\" alt=\"Update Ghanaians on cash from plastic waste "},"modified":"2019-04-29T19:26:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T19:26:26","slug":"update-ghanaians-on-cash-from-plastic-waste-levy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/29\/update-ghanaians-on-cash-from-plastic-waste-levy\/","title":{"rendered":"Update Ghanaians on cash from plastic waste levy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"fff post-thumbnail\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"post_layout_5_img\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/Seth.jpg\" alt=\"Update Ghanaians on cash from plastic waste levy \u2013 AGI to gov\u2019t\"\/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"mom-ads-wrap  \">\n<div class=\"mom-ads ads-layout-rotator ads-rotator-id-580\" style=\"width:728px; height:90px;\">\n<div class=\"mom-ads-inner\">\n<div class=\"mom-ad\" data-id=\"1236\" style=\"width:728px; height:90px; \">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"appear\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/Say-yes-to-ads-Banner-728-X-90.jpg\" alt=\"Right Below Featured Image\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) has requested from government a detailed account of money collected as plastic waste levy over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <strong>Citi News<\/strong> on the subject, the Chief Executive of the AGI, Seth Twum-Akwaboah said the unavailability of the funds is hindering efforts at recycling plastic waste in Ghana.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe tax is imposed on importers of plastic materials. The Act clearly spells out what the funds should be used for. Until today we do not know what the fund is being used for. We know so much has been accumulated over the years by collecting these taxes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thought that, that money should be channeled into the kind of things that we are talking about so that we can help the companies clear the plastic waste from the system. As we speak now, we are not too sure about how much has been accumulated so we really have issues\u2026 I think we need to continue engaging with the Ministry of Finance. We want to be part of the decision making process,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the second Annual General Meeting of the Environmental Services Providers Association (ESPA) on May 19, 2018, the then Sanitation Minister, Kofi Adda alleged that some GH\u00a299 million out of the GH\u00a2400 million realized from the levy from 2014 could not be traced.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister who suggested that the money disappeared during the erstwhile John Mahama government explained that the NPP government do not know the whereabouts of the money.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Adda at the time alleged that the money disappeared during the tenure of the erstwhile John Mahama government.<\/p>\n<p>He added that: \u201cAs of September 2016, about GH\u00a299 million was taken but we cannot account for it, we don\u2019t know where it is. Our government cannot trace the money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the Ministry had taken measures to prevent a repeat of the malfeasance.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"\/>  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) has requested from government a detailed account of money collected as plastic waste levy over the years. Speaking to Citi News on the subject, the Chief Executive of the AGI, Seth Twum-Akwaboah said the unavailability of the funds is hindering efforts at recycling plastic waste in Ghana. \u201cThe tax [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":611496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Update Ghanaians on cash from plastic waste levy - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/29\/update-ghanaians-on-cash-from-plastic-waste-levy\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Update Ghanaians on cash from plastic waste levy - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) has requested from government a detailed account of money collected as plastic waste levy over the years. 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