Three Metropolitan Assemblies receive vehicles

The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development on Monday presented five waste management vehicles worth GH¢580,000 to three metropolitan Assemblies under the Urban Environmental Sanitation Project II at a ceremony in Accra.

The beneficiary Assemblies are the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis, Kumasi Metropolis and the Tamale Metropolis.

Presenting the vehicles Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, said the vehicles included three Toyota Hiace vans that would serve as an information van for the three metropolitan assemblies.

Others were two Nissan Pickups for the Drain Maintenance Units of the Sekondi-Takoradi and the Tamale metropolis’ Waste Management Department.

He said the Sekondi-Takoradi has already benefited from the construction of a modern landfill and septage treatment facility.

The Minister said the information vans were meant to disseminate and create awareness on waste and sanitation management.

He said the Ministry has also presented one Tata Tipper Truck and one Water Tanker to the Sekondi-Takoradi to be used in the landfill sites.

He said Kumasi and Tamale Metropolis would also benefit from an engineered sanitary landfill sites soon.

Mr Ofosu-Ampofo said the government has intensified efforts to resource all the Municipal, Metropolitan and District Assemblies to strengthen their waste management departments.

Captain Anthony Cudjoe (rtd), the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Chief Executive, who represented the three Assemblies, expressed gratitude to the government and the Minister for the efforts to resolve the challenges of waste and sanitation management in the country.

Source: GNA