Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Joseph Kofi Adda, has said that Zoomlion Ghana Limited is to blame for the filth in the capital, Accra.
The Minister, who was speaking at a Sanitation Forum in Accra on Friday, 9 March 2018, singled out Zoomlion Ghana Limited for failing to ensure that the waste in the environment are collected and disposed of properly.
He said: “Dr Agyapong [CEO of Zoomlion Ghana Limited and Chairman of the Jospong Group of Companies], I’m sorry to disappoint you here…finding solid waste everywhere I feel really disappointed and if you were to ask me why this thing is so, I will put the blame squarely on Zoomlion. Zoomlion, to me, is the cause of it”.
Mr Adda said it was the responsibility of the private waste management company to supervise the cleaning of the environment. However, “they are not sweeping and collecting everyday”.
According to him President Akufo-Addo had indicated at the National Sanitation Campaign launch that as waste is generated daily the proper disposal of the waste should occur daily.
For him, the sweeping, collection, transportation and disposal of waste must occur daily without leaving huge piles of rubbish all over the city. By his assessment the performance of Zoomlion in the regard has been below par and more effort is needed to tackle the sanitation problem in the capital adding: “I don’t think in the past year or so, Zoomlion has done so well enough”.
Source: classfmonline.com
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Honestly? Inasmuch as I like npp, this guy isn’t fit for the work given him. He’s always blaming others for his incompetence. He was invited to parliament in regards to what he was doing about the filth, and he was there given cheeky answers. He has to go cos clearly he can’t do the job. The job “over am”. He can’t. His implausible excuses are way too much.
How ***barred word*** can a minister be? So once you awarded the contract to zoomlion you thought your responsibilities were over? You go on record to blame a company for your own failure to oversee, to ensure that terms of reference are being followed. You sit in your air conditioned office and your air conditioned house waiting for house boy to carry out your boola? Yet you fail to do your job in the ghettos and slums of Accra? What an incompetent hypocrite you are. No wonder Ghana struggles when inefficient and unproductive people like you are appointed to jobs you have no business doing. Tweaa!
nonentity, do we have to apportion blame? does Ghana belongs to Zoom lion?
It is obvious the guy doesn't like his sector. I think he's eyeing the energy ministry. Anyways, the president should just relief him of his post, then he'll know that half loaf is better than nothing.
this is what happens when some privates institutions are monopoly......the government should allow competitors to compute in the waste management.....Ghana must work again
LETS ASSUME WE DONT HAVE ZOOMLION, WHAT WILL THEN HAPPEN TO THE HEAP AND MOUNTING FILTH IN THE CITY ??
oh africa, i doubt if this minister said this if it is true he needs to resign.
Really? Why are you a minister then? Why can't you sanction Zoomlion if you think the are not performing, but rather continue to sign off their pay cheques every month! Are we serious ? This is a joke right ?
Our dear country will never develop. We are quick to jump in defense or politicise institutions we pay to the job
ALWAYS LOOKING FOR AN ESCAPED GOAT TO KILL. ZOOMLION SEEMS TO BE FACING SERIOUS CHALLENGES UNDER THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION AND IT SEEMS EVERY OPPORTUNITY IS BEING SOUGHTOUT TO HAMMER THEM (ZOOMLION) TO THE WALL. NO MINISTER IN GHANA IN ALL GOVERNMENTS, PAST AND PRESENT ARE EVER WILLING TO ACCEPT THEIR INEFFICIENCIES. EVERYONE SITS BACK AND ALWAYS DEFEND THEIR INEFFICIENCIES AND IN THE LONG RAN IT GOES BACK TO THE PRESIDENT TO TAKE THE BLAMES WHEN INFACT THE PRESIDENT HAS APPOINTED YOU BASED ON TRUST AND FOR YOU TO ACT AS A TRUSTEE FOR HIM (THE PRESIDENT)IN THE AFFAIRS OF HIS GOVERNANCE. BREACHING THE TRUST IS ALL THAT WE ARE CABLE OF DOING HERE IN GHANA. OH GHANA, GHANA, MY MOTHERLAND, WHY SO?