Govt to face a series of protests if Kpone landfill is not shut down – Group warns

A you group calling itself Organized Youth for Development (OYD) at Kpone in the Kpone Katamanso District Assembly (KKDA) has threatened to embark on a series of legally permitted actions including organized demonstrations against government to shut down the Kpone landfill site which they say is killing them in the municipality.

Narrating their ordeal, the youth leader, Nii Noi Tetteh lamented over the fruitless engagements the youth of the area have had with the Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Mrs. Cecilia Abena Dapaah and the Greater Accra Regional Minister, Mr. Ishmael Ashitey over the period not less than six months.

A viciously frustrated Tetteh said, "We are on our last lifeline, we have no such luxury of time to wait anymore"

Because of this landfill he said they have most their water bodies to the leache and many of the inhabitant have died mysteriously.

He said there are no accessible roads and any development activity going in the municipality which is a worry to the youth of the area.

The Regional Minister flanked with other metropolitan and municipal chief executives were on a tour to assess the state of the landfills and to engage the youth further for a truce upon news that the youth were readying to demonstrate against government for the closure of the Kpone landfill.



Fire gathered the Kpone Landfill on August 15, 2019 and up till now the fire is still burning which resulted in the decommissioning of the landfill.

The oldest site on the same land has therefore been used to accommodate waste amounting to 800 and 900 tons in a day.

The Regional Minister Hon. Ishmael Ashittey appealed to the youth leaders to talk to their members to calm down for government has already awarded their road as part of "government's special roads" to a contractor who is mobilising to come to site and that government was almost ready to relocate the landfill site from Kpone.

He said he has had discussions with the Sanitation and Water Resource Minister and the relocation will executed as soon as possible.



The Municipal Chief Executive of the Tema Municipal Assembly (TMA), Hon. Felix Annang-La appealed to the youth for cool heads saying it was practically impossible for government or the TMA to shut down the Kpone landfill overnight.

According to the MCE, government has decided that all other parts of Greater Accra Region except Tema, Ashaima and Kpone are not supposed to dump their refuse at the Kpone Landfill again which is an agenda to reduce the pressure on the landfill until the relocation is successfully done.

Mr. Annang-La appealed to patrons of the facility from other parts of Accra to desist from hauling waste from Accra to the site any further.