In spite efforts by the Bolgatanga Municipal Assembly to ensure the Regional capital is kept clean, section of the city are still engulfed with both liquid and solid waste.
In view of that, some residents in the Municipality are hitting hardly that, there is no education at all from the Environmental Health and Sanitation Unit on measures pertaining waste management, most especially plastic waste management.
According to them, the various departments in the Municipality, especially the Environmental Health and Sanitation Unit under the Municipal Assemble is doing nothing in terms of educating the public about sanitation; making the Municipality to be the laughing stock when issues about sanitation are pop-up.
Mr. Mohamed Abdulla, thinks the authorities are not doing their better when it comes to counseling the ones who have the functioning mind to sensitize them about manners pertaining keeping the surrounding clean. “…for men the Environmental Health and Sanitation Unit is not doing its better in educating the public about waste management”, he said.
Ayine Vida said “…as far as I’m concerned, I have nerve heard the authorities from the Environmental Health and Sanitation Unit coming out to educate the public about waste management or some of a sort.”
Akolgo Atinga Mallam believed the Environmental Health and Sanitation Unit only look at people who are staying at the Estate housings; educating them about waste management and turn a blind eye to them at the Zongos because “they think that if coming to the Zongo and after the education, they will not get money from us, so they prefer not wasting their time coming”.
Adongo Adams said “I don’t think they are doing their work because they know very well that either they work or not when ‘Moon dies’ they will get their pay.”
Meanwhile in a quick response, Bornaa Evans, who is the Prosecutor under the Environmental Health and Sanitation Unit thinks they residents are need to change their attitude about waste disposal and management.
Source: a1radioonline.com | 101.1 MHz | Moses Apiah
