The saying that cleanliness is next to Godliness is mostly espoused and used as a phrase by Ghanaians in our daily lives.
The report indicates that, although government had partnered with international institutions such as the World Bank in some waste management projects and other related programmes in the implementation of projects such as phases I, II and III of the Urban Development Projects in the 1990s, and the “Urban Environmental Sanitation Project (UESP) 1996- 2000” in Accra, Kumasi, Tamale, Takoradi and Tema which resulted in the construction of sanitary infrastructure such as night soil treatment plants and private toilets and then, DFID in the “Accra Waste Management Project” designed to address wastewater and night soil treatment options in the city, these efforts were and are still inadequate.
The rest are Apedum Waste Services Ltd, Bioland Ltd, Keen 2 Clean Services Ltd, New Era Waste Concept, Golden Falcom Ltd, Early Sunrise Trading Co. Ltd, Asadu Royal Seed Waste Management, Premko Waste Ltd, Savanah Waste Management Services Ltd, Upper East Waste Ltd, Urban Waste Ltd, BA Waste Ltd, Ashanti Waste Ltd, Eastern Waste Ltd, Coastal Waste Ltd, Meridian Waste Management Services, Jam Waste Management Company, Habana Waste Management Services and Home Refuse Collection Enterprise and so on.
Recently, the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) admonished members to be balanced in their reportage especially in practicing development/investigative journalism so as not to court unnecessary media trial of people and institutions.
This presupposes that we citizens should engage in a waste generation without recourse to its disposal and management for that matter and the collection and management being the burden Zoomlion or the waste management companies.
In our daily lives, we have become a nation of ‘polythene bags’ which we use in everything we do.
Waste management and environmental sanitation must be everybody’s concern.
The MMDAs should enforce their bye-laws for those laws were not made for the sake of beauty, the sanitation courts must be decentralized to the regional and district levels and made to work to ensure that the people of this country are up to the task in terms of environmental sanitation and waste management.
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufu-Ado should muster the political will and courage and, leave a legacy in Ghana of a total prohibition of the use of the polythene bags and water sachets.