The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), under the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA) Sanitation and Water Project (SWP), has organised a two-day capacity building programme in customer care for staff of its Waste Management and Public Health departments and other private stakeholders in the waste management sector who operate within the metropolis.
Delivering the opening address for the programme, the Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE) of Accra, Mohammed Adjei Sowah, charged the staff to change their attitudes to work, saying their ineffectiveness was contributing to indiscriminate waste disposal in the city which the AMA is committed to ending and warned such acts would not be tolerated under his leadership.
He was also concerned about the attitudes of some residents of the metropolis who choke drains with waste, aggravating the challenges with sanitation in the city.
He made known his intent on finding alternative uses to waste such as recycling it to feed industries which depend on it, citing Agbogloshie where electronic waste such as computers dumped there is now raw materials for some industries. To this end, he called on the staff of the waste department to closely work with him in order to end this menace.
Concluding his address, the MCE said the AMA would soon come out with a waste management policy where support would be needed from all stakeholders to ensure that Accra becomes a waste-free city, commending GAMA-SWP for supporting AMA through capacity building.
Anthony Mensah, director of waste management of AMA, urged his staff to put the skills they would acquire through the training programme to good use so that sanitation in the city would see a massive improvement.
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