By Newman Dotse
Accra, the capital city of Ghana, faces many environmental challenges but the largest, catastrophic and most long standing of these challenges is the management of its liquid waste.
Presently, Accra’s untreated sewage is being dumped directly into the ocean by the waste Management Department of AMA, thus putting the health of Ghanaians and fishes in the ocean at risk.
The waste is disposed off at the Korle Gonno Beach liquid Waste Disposal site popularly known as the Lavender Hill.
Unfortunately, no treatment plant exists at the site to thoroughly treat the liquid waste to make certain that fishes in the ocean and birds that hover and perch around it are not poisoned.
It is quite surprising that AMA, which preaches cleanliness all the time, has turned round to compound the very problem it has been educating Ghanaians to help resolve. What hypocrisy?
By the above problem, filth and strange diseases will soon engulf Ghana because the enforcer of the law is as guilty as any other person.
In fact, AMA is becoming an onlooker as the whole atmosphere of Accra is being polluted.
Watch out for the part two of this story.
Source: The Citizen Newspaper (+233 27 731 4655)
