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Ghana: Collection/Dumping of Refuse - a Major Headache for District Assemblies
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Ghanaian Chronicle (Accra)
26 March 2008
Posted to the web 26 March 2008
Naa Norley
The collection and dumping of refuse in the capital has been a major problem for municipal and district assemblies in the Greater Accra Region.
This has been inherited by the newly-created municipal and districts assemblies with no solution in sight.
The lens of the Accra File in most of the districts in the Greater Accra Region reported that most residents, in the developing areas of the region, are yet to come to terms with the "pay as you dump" system instituted by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA).
According to a resident at Kwashieman, a suburb of Accra, most of their wards are turned back by Zoomlion workers, because the children refuse to pay the amount charged on the quantity of rubbish.
She said as to how the rubbish was weighed and a fee charged by the workers, one cannot tell. "For me the AMA did not educate us well on the pay as dump matter, all we know is that when the container is full we do not dump our rubbish there."
She said the staff of Zoomlion collect between Gp20 and Gp50 and wondered where the money goes, adding that there have been a number of times when intense fighting has broken out between users of the containers and the staff.
The Accra File's tour around some places in the city, like Nima, New Town, Teshie, La, Accra Central, and Korle Gonno, reveals that due to the unavailability of more refuse containers in these areas, some residents prefer to dump their garbage, tied in black polythene bags, wherever they can find space, resulting in black plastic bags being spread across the length and breath of the region.
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Accra lacks a proper dumping site and with the breakdown of the machines at the Teshie Fertilizer Plant, the area is now being misused by the operators and causing nuisance to people living close to the site.
Residents of La are also turning a vast piece of land, adjacent the Trade Fair Site, into a dumping site, which poses a serious health threat to nearby inhabitants.
Now the onus lies on the heads of districts, and municipal assemblies, to find a suitable and mechanized way of keeping their districts clean, despite the giant problems facing them, in terms of refuse collection and dumping.
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