MP attributes waste management problems to poor planning

Kumasi, Oct. 25

Alhaji Ahmed Musah, Member of Parliament for Asokwa-East, has attributed most of the environmental and waste management problems in urban centres to poor and unplanned physical developments.

He therefore advised that the practice by developers to erect physical structures without any building plan or any development permit from the Metropolitan or District Planning Committees, "must be stopped to avoid epidemics among the people".

Alhaji Musah was presenting sanitary equipment valued at 1.5 million cedis to the Adukrom electoral area to facilitate efforts by the residents to improve their environmental and sanitary conditions.

The package,made up of 10 each of wheelbarrows, pick-axes, rakes and shovels, will be in the custody of a seven-member sanitation and equipment committee.

Alhaji Musah procured the equipment from his share of the MPs' common fund and that part of the tools would be allocated to Dignity club, an environmental youth club at Adukrom.

The MP said he would allot 70 percent of his share of the MPs' common fund to education and the remaining 30 percent for environmental and sanitary improvement programmes.

Nana Poku Fofie II, Akrofohene, who received the items on behalf of the electoral area, commended the MP for his concern for personal hygiene and environmental cleanliness in the area.

The Akrofohene said the equipment was a big relief as the lack of tools had contributed to the inability of the people to undertake regular clean-up exercises and communal labour.