The Sunyani Municipal Assembly has acquired thousands of refuse containers to be distributed among households in the municipality for proper waste management.
According to the city authorities, the assembly has finalized processes with an international investor to recycle solid and liquid waste for other useful purposes adding that the project is expected to begin by next year.
Interacting with media practitioners in Sunyani, Mrs Evelyn Ama Kumi-Richardson, the Sunyani Municipal Chief Executive, said the waste containers would be supplied to the public for GHC10 as a commitment fee.
She said the assembly was determined to promote environmental cleanliness so that the regional capital would maintain its status as the cleanest city in the country. Mrs Kumi-Richardson said the assembly recognizes the important role of the media and from next year it would deepen its collaboration with media institutions and rely mostly on them in identifying and addressing the immediate needs of the people.
She advised the media to focus and highlight on issues of social development and cautioned them against using their outlets to cause misunderstanding that could threaten national peace and social cohesion.
Mrs Kumi-Richardson said 19 additional infrastructural projects would be executed in the municipality and assured the people that the assembly would ensure equitable distribution of its resources for the betterment of the people.
Mr Martin Obeng, the Sunyani West District Chief Executive, said the Planting for Food and Jobs (PfFJs) programme was doing well in the two districts and advised the unemployed youth to register and benefit from the programme.
Describing 2019 as a year of rapid socio-economic transformation and development, Mr Obeng called on the media to highlights the benefits of the government social intervention programmes to whip the interest of the teeming unemployed youth to register and support those programmes.
He said the assembly was working hard to ensure that the area benefitted from the One-District-One-Factory (1D1F) programmes to create more jobs for the people. Mr Larry Paa Kwesi Moses, the Brong-Ahafo Regional Chairman of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), commended the two assemblies for the media encounter and expressed the hope that such engagements would be held regularly.
Source: businessghana.com
