RESIDENTS BLAME ASSEMBLY FOR FILTH

By Michael Sarpong Mfum

Some residents of the Sunyani Municipality are blaming the municipal Assembly for the increasing filth because of not providing dustbins at vantage points in the city.

Checks conducted on the streets of Sunyani points to the fact that there is not a single dustbin on the streets where people can put their polythene bags after taking their water.

The residents are therefore blaming the Municipal Assembly for not providing dustbins which has resulted in the increase in filth especially polythene bags in gutters. Residents have not option than to throw polythene bags at any available space they come across.

Mr. Precious Semevo, a broadcast Journalist with Sunyani based radio station Sky FM said Sunyani is losing her status as the cleanest regional capital in the country because of the absence  dustbins which has compel the residents to litter the streets.

He therefore appealed to the Municipal Assembly as a matter of urgency to provide dustbins at vantage points to reduce the increasing filth in the once cleanest city in Ghana.

Though the streets of Sunyani look nice, the gutters are choked with polythene bags especially with water sachet bags.

Municipal Environmental Officer, Mr. Simon Opoku in an interview said the Assembly has to redraw the dustbins from vantage points because some residents were misusing the dustbins.

“Before I assumed office as the Municipal environmental Officer, the assembly had provided dustbins at every corner of Sunyani, but people were abusing these dustbins, some residents were depositing human excreta into them as well as household refuse, which these dustbins were not meant for, we  therefore embarked on a massive education on the numerous  radio stations in Sunyani to educate the residents not to deposit their household refuse and human excreta  into the dustbins but they did not heed to our advise we therefore redraw the dustbins. Zoomlion Ghana Limited also came in to support but later they also redraw their dustbins,” Mr. Opoku disclosed.

Mr. Opoku noted that the assembly has realized that the redrawing of the dustbins did not help the situation.

 A gutter in Sunyani

“We have realized that the redrawing of the dustbins has not helped, we have therefore decided to bring back the dustbins, this time around we are going to persecute people who litter the streets and also misuse the dustbins, we are not going to spare anyone who did not comply to the assembly’s directive on how to keep the city clean,” Mr. Opoku added.