{"id":3185,"date":"2019-09-15T12:53:47","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T12:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/ghana\/?p=3185"},"modified":"2019-09-15T12:53:47","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T12:53:47","slug":"sanitation-disaster-looms-in-takoradi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/uncategorized\/sanitation-disaster-looms-in-takoradi","title":{"rendered":"Sanitation disaster looms in Takoradi,"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a sanitation disaster “waiting to explode within the Sekondi -Takoradi as the Metropolis is engulfed in filth.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The region’s only landfill site at Sofokrom is “the worst waste site” in the country,” the\u00a0Parliamentary select committee on sanitation has said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Waste Management in the Western Region is in its sorry state as the Assembly is said to lack the capacity to manage the overly full landfill site in the city.<\/p>\n

Various contractors have abandon site due to non-payment, according to reports.
\nThe health threatening state of the Sofokrom Landfill site was uncovered during a joint parliamentary select committee tour of the region to inspect the various sanitary state of landfill sites following a recent fire outbreak at the Kpone landfill in Accra.
\nSituation at the Sofokrom site has necessitated a call for an immediate action to mitigate the harm being caused.<\/p>\n

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\nThe parliamentarians, who had difficult time to access the site due to bad road network, have declared the area a “disaster zone” as faecal matter is openly\u00a0 disposed\u00a0 into the bushes around.<\/p>\n

A source at the waste management department of the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly revealed that the Assembly lacks capacity to manage the landfill site hence the need to re-engage waste landfills company limited to help provide proper engineered landfill management.<\/p>\n

The Member of Parliament for Banda and the 1st Deputy Minority Chief Whip, Hon. Ahmed Ibrahim in an interview with journalists condemned the sanitation, describing it as a \u201csanitation disaster waiting to explode\u201d.<\/p>\n

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He said modern practices in waste management focuses on waste recycling which is sustainable and should be the focus of every assembly to ensure waste is recovered and recycled into other useable materials.
\n\u201cThe joint select committee on this tour will recommend the establishment of waste recycling and compost plants across all the regions to help create jobs and resources out of the waste been generated\u201d, he revealed.
\nMeanwhile, the Deputy Regional Minister of the Western Region, Gifty Eugenia Kusi said waste recycling and composting as demonstrated by Zoomlion\u2019s Integrated Recycling and Compost Plant (IRECOP) in Accra should be established in the region to help create value and jobs out of the waste in the region.
\nShe charged the parliamentarians to advocate for an increase in the budget allocated to the region to help tackle sanitation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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