The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has plans of spraying the landfill site at Atonsu Kuwait in order to deal with the unbearable stench emanating from the site, John Alexander Ackon, Ashanti Regional Minister and Acting KMA boss, has said.
His comment follows several complaints by residents of the area that the stench emanating from the landfill site was posing a health threats.
Speaking in an interview with Chief Jerry Forson, host of Ghana Yensom on Accra100.5FM on Thursday September 22, he explained that in the long term, the assembly has put in measures to treat the liquid waste that emanates from the landfill.
He said: “We have a plant in Kumasi called the compost plant that can treat 1200 to 1500 tonnes of waste a day and so in the next month, or maximum three (months), tonnes of the waste will not go to the engineered landfill site (Atonsu Kuwait); they will go to the compost plant, so appreciably we can solve the problem but in the interim we want the spraying to go on.
“Immediately as an emergency measure, we are going to spray there.”
Mr Ackon also indicated that the KMA on several occasions had had difficulties raising money to deal with the waste, a situation which normally results in some of these problems.
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
