Pantang residents up in arms over refuse dump

Residents of Pantang have "revealed" plans to stop the dumping of refuse in the area.

According to them, pleas, petitions and even demonstrations have not yielded any positive results in their attempts to stop the use of the area as a landfill site.

Speaking to TV3’s Wendy Laryea on Midday Live on Wednesday, Elvis Akuamoah, the Chairman of the Pantang Residents' Association, said residents are keeping their plan close to their chest but they have confidence it will yield expected results.

“We are going to be our own security,” he said.

“We have other plans we are going to execute,” he stressed.

He expressed bewilderment at the irony of having a nurses’ training school in an area enveloped in filth and wondered how the students studied with the stench all over.

“Churches worship God in complete filth,” he added.

He lamented how their concerns have not been addressed by many state institutions they have petitioned.

“We have not had a single response from letters we have written.”

“We have contingency plans,” Mr Akuamoah said.

The about 800-square metre Abokobi-Pantang dump site started as a temporary site for solid waste generated in the now Ga East Municipal Assembly in 1997.

The Municipal Chief Executive, John Kwao Sackey, once told journalists that the Assembly is aware of the health implications on residents and plans have been put in place to shut the site down.