In line with its promise to rid the capital off filth and
make it the millennium city, the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (A.M.A) has taken
a bold step which I support so well. On The 27th of July 2011, I saw a news
item on E.t.v-Ghana which said that the Accra Metropolitan Assemble (A.M.A) had
given a maximum of 60days to waste management companies to rid Accra off
filth. In an interview with the Mayor of
Accra, Mr Alfred Vanderpuije, he said there had been several complaints about
the poor services some of these companies render. In view of this, these
companies had been given a maximum of 60days to clear filth from Accra. He
added that several companies had presented proposals to handle waste management
and therefore this measure had been put in place to replace companies currently
found not to be delivering. This is however not my worry.
My worry is that on 28th July (thus just a day after the news
item) at exactly 6:40am, the company responsible for rubbish collection in my
area (Odorkor) were there to do their job and I was so amazed. This has never
happened in my area (at least as far as I can remember). Does it mean these
people had all the time been taking us for a ride; with all the excuses they
have been giving us for not coming for the rubbish; sometimes for more than 2
weeks. I could not believe that it had to take a threat from A.M.A for them to
begin to deliver.
We previously had Zoomlion responsible for our area and they delivered
effectively until the new one (i.e. Asadu) was apportioned to our area and
since that change we have been receiving poor services. People leave their
rubbish at collection points for days hoping it would be collected soon and
sometimes have the rains even pour on them which leads to several environmental
hazards. The most annoying thing is at the end of the month they come demanding
their money. In confronting them, we were told there were no dumping sites and
also roads leading to available dumping sites were very bad so their vehicles
could not asses them. However my question is that, did the threat of them losing
their contract with A.M.A suddenly fix the roads and provide dumping sites so
they began to deliver?
By: Julius Ofori Boadu (JOB)
(juliusboadu@gmail.com)
Twitter: @CwesiOfori
By: Julius Ofori Boadu (JOB)
(juliusboadu@gmail.com)
Twitter: @CwesiOfori
