The Municipal Chief Executive of Bolgatanga, Joseph Amiyuure, has dismissed media reports that the assembly is cash-strapped and could not procure a starter battery for the truck that clears refuse in the municipality.
A Ghana News Agency (GNA) report published on 20th April 2018 and culled by The Ghanaian Chronicle newspaper suggested that sanitation situation in the municipality was getting out of hands because management of the assembly could not raise money to replace a starter battery of the only refuse truck of the assembly.
The situation, according to the report left the municipality engulfed with filth and stench.
But speaking on A1 Radio’s news and current affairs analysis programme, Reporters’ Visit, on Tuesday, the MCE said the assembly was never cash-strapped and explained the circumstances that led to overflow of the refuse. He spoke to Host of the programme, William Jalulah.
“I just want to tell you that, it cannot be true. If for anything at all, our assembly is one of the assembly generating revenues, so if the assembly is generating revenue, I don’t know why some will say we are cash strapped. This issue of one month, I think is a fallacy because I have already told you, we picked the refuse weekly by weekly depending on the refuse production within a particular locality and for some reason they were to left the refuse at a point where even the filling maybe that would have been the time the publisher might have also seen filth he is talking about. But am not saying such a thing doesn’t happen, but am saying that am always on the ground to make sure, that containers are not been left at particular place without collection. Sometimes I ring them and even the sanitation officer himself, his responsibility is even to go round, monitor those containers that are full and needs collection and this is exactly what my environmental officer is doing and that is what the Zoomlion officer equally do”. He asserted.
Mr. Amiyure further stated that after he returned from the nation’s capital, Accra, for the launch of the sanitation campaign by his Excellency Nana Akufo Addo, he has made it his priority to see every day as a sanitation day.
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