Kumasi still stinks after keep the city clean and green campaign ---- opinion
Dear KMA, I am writing to you from the centre of Kumasi, and I am a citizen who have make a critical observation of sanitation issues in the city.
Before I continue, I would like to thank the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly for initiating Keep the City Clean and Green campaign which according to the Mayor is aimed at regaining the past glory of Kumasi as the Garden City of West Africa.
On the 5th of June 2018, Mr Osei Asibey Antwi, who is the chief executive of KMA told the press although several campaigns of this kind have failed to deliver results;there are enough measures to monitor the success of this new campaign.
It's been 9 months now and the city remains the same as it was before the lunch of KKCG campaign. Because the campaign is divided into Greening and cleaning of the city, I would like to concentrate more on the cleaning aspect and allow the trees time to grow.
I will hereby talk about cleaning aspect of the campaign.
I will again commend the Assembly for erecting some litter bins across the city which is to ensure that people do not litter but rather dispose litters in the bins.
Is unfortunate that some people in the city disposes garbage made in their homes into this litter bins and the Assembly has refused to enforce their laws on these lawless citizens.
This is not to say people have stop littering but rather the city remains filthy despite measures from the Assembly to keep the city clean.
I would like to quote a statement from the mayor when he was lunching the KKCG campaign, "In the area of education,we have sanitation crusaders and in the area of monitoring and enforcement of the law,we have the sanitation brigade and they have already been sent out. Now the education is even geared at making the people own and monitor the campaign."
Now my questions to the Assembly are as follows:
1. Where are the sanitation crusaders who are to educate the people of Kumasi on how to keep the city clean?
2. If they are educating the people, why is it that the city is still filthy?
3. Are the sanitation brigades monitoring and enforcing the laws.
4. If they are monitoring, have they seen that the city is filthy?
Gutters are choked with refuse. Have they seen it.
5. People urinate and defecate at unauthorized places. Have they been able to enforce the laws on such people so that it can serve as a deterrent to others?
The city stinks and it has a negative implication on the health of the citizens within.
Before I continue, I would like to thank the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly for initiating Keep the City Clean and Green campaign which according to the Mayor is aimed at regaining the past glory of Kumasi as the Garden City of West Africa.
On the 5th of June 2018, Mr Osei Asibey Antwi, who is the chief executive of KMA told the press although several campaigns of this kind have failed to deliver results;there are enough measures to monitor the success of this new campaign.
It's been 9 months now and the city remains the same as it was before the lunch of KKCG campaign. Because the campaign is divided into Greening and cleaning of the city, I would like to concentrate more on the cleaning aspect and allow the trees time to grow.
I will hereby talk about cleaning aspect of the campaign.
I will again commend the Assembly for erecting some litter bins across the city which is to ensure that people do not litter but rather dispose litters in the bins.
Is unfortunate that some people in the city disposes garbage made in their homes into this litter bins and the Assembly has refused to enforce their laws on these lawless citizens.
This is not to say people have stop littering but rather the city remains filthy despite measures from the Assembly to keep the city clean.
I would like to quote a statement from the mayor when he was lunching the KKCG campaign, "In the area of education,we have sanitation crusaders and in the area of monitoring and enforcement of the law,we have the sanitation brigade and they have already been sent out. Now the education is even geared at making the people own and monitor the campaign."
Now my questions to the Assembly are as follows:
1. Where are the sanitation crusaders who are to educate the people of Kumasi on how to keep the city clean?
2. If they are educating the people, why is it that the city is still filthy?
3. Are the sanitation brigades monitoring and enforcing the laws.
4. If they are monitoring, have they seen that the city is filthy?
Gutters are choked with refuse. Have they seen it.
5. People urinate and defecate at unauthorized places. Have they been able to enforce the laws on such people so that it can serve as a deterrent to others?
The city stinks and it has a negative implication on the health of the citizens within.
We need solutions to these problem.
The money which was spent on this campaign should not go waste but rather deliver results.
I'm a citizen but not a spectator.
Thank you.
The money which was spent on this campaign should not go waste but rather deliver results.
I'm a citizen but not a spectator.
Thank you.
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