The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of Bolgatanga Rex Asanga, has expressed his concern about the insufficient number of refuse trucks available for the Bolgatanga Municipal assembly. Apexnenwsgh report
Over a period of time, sanitation in the Municipality has become a serious issue, prompting Mr. Asanga to establish two sanitation-related policies: ‘Operation Clean Your Frontage‘and a monthly clean-up exercise. Mr. Asanga acknowledged in an exclusive interview with Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen of Apexnewsgh that the Municipality’s population is high, and as a result, they have not yet developed the capacity to keep up with the increasing rate of solid waste.
ZoomlionGh is a major actor and I think have about 20 to 21 spots where containers ought to be for them to be lifting and the assembly has about 14-16 spots where containers are supposed to be”.
However, Mr. Asanga, also revealed that so far, the Assembly don’t have containers for various spots where we are supposed to be lifting and so, this simply means that there are some spots which is supposed to have containers but not having containers. But I want to believe things have expanded, in such areas we ought to have more containers.
“The problem is that the containers cost a lot of money. The last time we procured some, I think they sold it to us for almost Fifty Thousand Ghana Cedis (Ghc 50,000.00)”
The MCE however praised ZoomlionGh for their efforts as he encourages them to do more of the lifting of refuse waste within the Municipality.
‘’I think ZoomlionGh are doing their best, but I think they should be lifting more because the rate of lifting also helps. If you are doing it every 2 days or 3 days, is better than doing it ones in a week. We have been on them to increase the regularity’’.
Mr. Asanga acknowledged that issues of sanitation caused them more money as an assembly. “That is where most of our money is going, we have an agreement with one of the fuel stations and the refuse trucks are free to go in there and fill their truck tanks all is to make sure they carry the refuse waste”.
“We need more refuse trucks. Currently we have only two, one for the hard waste and one for the liquid waste. So, this our challenge, we have limited number of trucks that transport the refuse waste. Mr. Asanga told Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen
Source: Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana
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