Parliamentary Select Committee donates bins to the AMA

Accra, Oct. 8, GNA - The Parliamentary Select Committee on Environment, Science and Technology on Wednesday presented 50 twin-bins to the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) as part of its contribution in helping to curb filth in the city.

The bins worth 6,000 new Ghana cedis were donated to the Select Committee by the Poly Group of Companies, manufacturers of plastic and paper products.

Interacting with the Select Committee, Mr Isaac Tetteh Adjovu, Coordinating Director of the AMA, bemoaned the level of filth, which had engulfed the city and urged the public to uphold cleanliness in order to avoid diseases.

He thanked the Select Committee and Poly Group for the initiative and appealed to all to use the bins for the intended purposes. "We must all do well not to put any foreign material into the bins. We should also avoid carrying garbage from our homes and dumping them into the bins."

Mr Kwame Owusu Frimpong, Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee, said the committee was moved to solicit for the bins due to the image the nation was carving for itself as one of the dirtiest on the continent. He praised Poly Group for responding to the call of the Committee and pledged its support in helping to ensure that the city and the nation as a whole were neat.

Mr. Ebo Botwe, Corporate Affairs Manager of Poly Group of Companies, expressed the company's delight in helping to keep the city clean adding that very soon the gesture would be extended to other cities.