Tamale to modernise waste disposal

Tamale (Northern Region), 28 Jan. '99 - The Tamale municipal assembly, is to install a waste treatment plant at a land fill site off the Tamale-Yendi road. Alhaji A.Y.M.B. Ibrahimah, Tamale Municipal Chief Executive, who announced this in Tamale on Tuesday at the end of a two-day capacity building workshop, said consultants have been appointed to plan the site and advise the assembly on waste disposal. It was sponsored by the association of Netherlands Municipalities International Project Unit and attended by assembly and zonal council members and other stakeholders. They examined the position of the waste management department in municipal/metropolitan assemblies and strategic planning for municipal solid waste management. Also discussed were the establishment of a planning framework for solid waste management including legal and administrative with the view to privatising waste disposal in selected districts. Similar and workshops will be organised in Accra, Kumasi, Sekondi Takoradi and Tema. Alhaji Ibrahimah called on the waste management department of the assembly to embark on an education campaign to teach the people on the new system of waste disposal. He asked the department to collaborate with other departments to keep the municipality clean at all times. A resource person at the workshop, Mr Fruits Fransen, asked the department to establish good working relationship with the community to get the people to change their traditional methods of waste disposal.