The donation which forms part of the corporate social responsibility of the number one waste management company in Africa is to help reduce communicable diseases and other diseases that are contracted through excessive filth in the cities. The company believes this is only an add-up to the numerous activities they have being embarking on to clean the whole country.
At a short ceremony to hand over the vehicles and other items to AMA, the Managing Director of Zoomlion Ghana Ltd, Mrs. Florence Larbi said the company is committed to push the presidential initiative to make Accra the cleanest city in Africa.
“We are privileged to be a part of the clean Ghana agenda. In this year’s state of the nation address by President Nana Akuffo Addo, he outlined the need to resource our sub-metros so that they will deliver on their mandate to keep the city clean, and in line of that, we are supporting our hardworking Mayor with 10 pickups 20 motorized tricycles and other cleaning logistics to the tune of 1.5 million Ghana cedis for the clean Ghana campaign”, Mrs. Florence Larbi said.
Mrs. Larbi hoped that this donation will boost supervision of the sanitation activities in the capital. She stressed that management of Zoomlion is ever ready to provide effective private sector support to the AMA and in any form, that will help the government achieve its target and also to drive the country towards achieving the sustainable development goal on sanitation.
On his part, Hon Mohammed Nii Adjei Sowah was very enthusiastic about the generosity of the Zoomlion Ghana Ltd towards AMA and their will to see the president’s vision of making Accra the cleanest city materializes.
He intimated that AMA is also happy about how Zoomlion is carrying out its existing projects in the city and their renewed commitment to continue in helping clean the city.
The AMA boss said, “it is established that your company is a leading company in waste management in this country. The Accra Metropolitan Assembly have a long-standing relationship with the Zoomlion company when we started our polluter phase system, we gave out some sub metro to the Zoomlion company, such as the Ayawaso West Wuogon and some other areas which we are working at, however the president’s call that Accra should be the cleanest city by the end of his tenure, is an enormous task given to us. We are fully aware of the challenge and we are working assiduously towards achieving the president’s objective.”
For the AMA, activities are already in place to achieve this vision, and have therefore adopted a 3-point approach which includes provision of information and education, enforcement of by-laws and the provision of infrastructure and logistics to support the project. These pickups and other logistics have come at a right time.
“These pick-ups trucks donated to us will help to enforce our by-laws in our respective sub-metros”, said Hon. Sowah.
According to Mr. Sowah, the motorcycles from Zoomlion will help the AMA in clearing small heaps of refuse along gutters and in residential areas which are becoming a great menace to the assembly.
He took the opportunity to outline some plans and policies of the AMA in dealing with the use of motorcycles to boost the collection of waste in our cities.
The management of Zoomlion Ghana Ltd. reiterated their commitment to help the country achieve SDG goals on sanitation and the president’s sanitation vision 2020. The company has for many years undertaken several interventions to improve sanitation in the country.
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By: Sammy Agyei/Frontpageghana.com/Ghana
