Cecilia Abena Dapaah, the minister of sanitation and water resources, has stated that the ministry is working with stakeholders to ensure that dumping sites that have gone ignored for a number of years are properly redesigned and turned into recreational areas to boost tourism.
She mentioned the 20-year-old piles of trash at the Korle Dudor site, Old Fadama, and suggested they would be redesigned.
According to Mrs. Dapaah, the ministry's responsibility under the Greater Accra Resilient Integrated Development (GARID) project was to remove unneeded and unlawful waste piles that may otherwise wash into the Odaw River.
During her Wednesday familiarization tour of the neighborhood, she made this known in Old Fadama.
There are roughly 152,000 people living in Old Fadama; most of them are street hawkers, mechanics, kayayeis, and junk merchants.
She went on a trip that included stops at the Madina Market and the Ofankor Railway Waste.
Mrs. Dapaah reaffirmed that, as a result of the support given by the Ministry, the phenomenon of waste piles in towns and cities had vanished.
The minister went on to say that the best course of action for waste management in the Odaw Basin was to sort trash since it would help young people find jobs. In this regard, the Odaw River being a living thing, the washout of trash into it would be eliminated.
She continued by saying that the re-engineered landscape at the Kpone site was so open that people might rent it out for special occasions like weddings or recreational activities in exchange for money that would go towards upkeep and growth.
Mrs. Dapaah continued by saying that instead of burying rubbish, Dubai has re-engineered it into a complicated system that includes recycling facilities estimated to have cost $1.2 billion.
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She declared that her ministry had previously delivered roughly 8,100 trash cans and was now doing a count in order to replenish the ones that were damaged or worn out.
Mrs. Dapaah urged locals to refrain from "burning electronic waste as it becomes hazardous and pollutes the environment" in order to protect the ecology.
Generally speaking, the minister stated that she was "happy that in my capacity as Minister of Sanitation, what we used to see as heaps of garbage in towns is no more" when making her rounds.
"As a ministry, we are to make sure that refuse or waste is not dumped into the Odaw River because that water body should be a living organism," she continued.
What we have seen is that certain goods have been cleaned out for recycling, and I applaud that because it makes perfect sense to provide jobs for the kids.
Mrs. Dapaah asked the Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies (MMDAs) and sanitation courts to bring legal action against anybody found in violation of Accra's cleanliness rules, especially those who let stray animals wander the city.
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