KMA to construct waste-to-energy recycling plant

The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) is in talks with PGP Group, a Spanish company, for the establishment of a waste-to-energy recycling plant.

Mr Osei Assibey-Antwi, the Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE), said when installed, the facility would help address the disposal of the ever increasing tonnes of waste in the city.

Currently, the metropolis generates about 1, 500 tonnes of waste daily, most of which are evacuated to the Oti Landfill Site.

Mr Assibey-Antwi, who was addressing the third ordinary meeting of the third session of the Assembly in Kumasi, said waste management was one of their key development challenges.

The MCE said the Assembly had stepped up measures to acquire an excavator, bulldozer and a grader to undertake rehabilitation works on the road leading to the landfill site

Issues dealt with at the meeting ranged from security, health, education, infrastructure development, environmental sanitation to revenue generation.

The MCE said a special security exercise authorized by the Metropolitan Security Council (MESEC) was on-going to tackle the indiscipline exhibited by drivers, traders and pedestrians.

On education, he said, the Assembly advised the KMA Education sub-Committee to work around the clock in putting a stop to the increasing commercialization of school lands in the metropolis.

They had also been mandated to tackle head-on the use of deplorable vehicles by some private schools in conveying pupils to ensure their safety.

Mr Assibey-Antwi said following a recommendation by the Trade, Industry and Market sub-Committee, the Assembly was considering the adoption of a proposal by a private developer to put up structures at the Race Course.

This, he said, was intended to accommodate more petty traders from the streets as the second phase of the Kejetia/Central Market Redevelopment Project was soon to get underway.