Zoom Alliance launches Sanitation Task Force for the U/E

Waste bins full to the brim

Recruits of Zoon Alliance in action

14-10-2012      

Narration: Zoon Alliance, a new private sector initiative and a subsidiary of Zoom Lion Ghana has officially launched a three months clean- up campaign in the Upper East Region to rid the city of filth. The inauguration of the task force which forms in line with government’s intervention aimed at addressing poor sanitary practices in the country sought to foster close collaboration between waste management contractors to effectively collect and dispose waste in the region and the country at large. At a ceremony held at Bolgatanga and attended by dignitaries including chiefs and personnel of the various security agencies, members of the newly inaugurated taskforce were charged to be committed to task given them. Correspondent Isaac Asare has the rest of the story for Radio Ghana.

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The Upper East Region and for that matter, Bolgatanga municipality was once adjudged as the cleanest district in the country. The same interestingly cannot be said of today, because the municipality has in recent time  being engulfed with filth, thus posing various health risks to residence in the area. Therefore the launch of the taskforce encompassing the National Sanitation task force aims at ensuring that the municipality retains its past glory. Launching the project on the theme: “A clean Ghana is a better Ghana: A shared Responsibility”,, the Bolgatanga Municipal Chief Executive, Edward Ayagle expressed regret at the behaviour of certain individuals whose activities poses major threat to the environment, particularl,y those who litter indiscriminately without considering the long term implications. He described the intervention of government and Zoom Alliance as timely and laudable, emphasizing that their effort has come at an opportune time when the municipality is being faced with sanitation crisis with indiscriminate littering in public places being the order of the day. The Assembly, Mr. Ayagle, pointed out is committed to the three month exercise and would partner Zoom Alliance in providing the necessary human resource and logistic to help augment their activities, adding that residents on regular basis would be engaged to undertake clean up exercises whilst the assembly takes additional steps to embark on clean-up educational campaign to salvage the problem of poor environmental sanitation. Mr Ayagle urged the taskforce members to exercise fairness in the discharge of their duties; bearing in mind that clean environment was a shared responsibility and not the responsibility of government and duty bearers alone. Concerned citizens, he indicated, has an equal task of reporting offenders of sanitation to the appropriate quarters for necessary action against them and further appeal to other stakeholders including chieftaincy institutions to play their role accordingly by driving home the message of clean environment to their subjects.  The Regional Zonal Manager of Zoom Lion, Mr. Laud Mike Tagoe expressed optimism that the collaboration of government and Zoom Alliance was bound to make an impact.  He said his outfit was determine to whip up the interest of the general public as far as good sanitary practice is concern and hinted that Zoomlion was committed to ensuring the proper execution of the exercise. According to him, members of the tasked force would be supported with the needed tools and logistics by Zoom Alliance to enable them carry out their services effectively and with ease. Under the three month project, 800 unemployed youth under the NYEP would be engaged to carry out the task. 50 taskforce members would be recruited in each district of the region. Meanwhile a joint clean- up exercise under the launch was carried out in the business district of the municipality involving handful of patriotic citizens including the MCE, Mr Ayagle. Heavily chocked drains and gutters were desilted whilst heap of with waste collected with trucks. The exercise is said to be replicated simultaneously in each district.

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