Agona West Assembly to collaborate with NCCE, NADMO on waste disposal.

Agona Swedru, June 2, GNA - The Agona West Municipal Assembly is to

collaborate with the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), the

Information Services Department, the Department of Environmental Health and

the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) to sensitize the

people to change their attitude towards waste disposal.

This is was stated by the Mr. Felix Jacob Obeng-Forson, Municipal Chief

Executive, in a statement issued at Agona Swedru at the weekend.

He noted that this would identify bottlenecks and challenges confronting the

disposal of waste in the municipality for redress and ensure a sustained clean

environmental.
The MCE said the Assembly would organize programmes for leadership

based-organizations such as traditional authorities, religious groups and other

identifiable bodies to improve their capacity to increase awareness on a safe and

clean environment.
He said in-service training would be organized for sanitary inspectors to

improve on their performance especially in shifting from prosecuting people to

providing education on sanitation.
Mr. Obeng-Forson said a taskforce would be set up to evaluate and improve

the revenue generating capacity of the Assembly its major sources, including

markets and lorry parks and stem leakages in the system.

He said efforts would be made to strengthen the capacity of revenue

collectors through training.
The MCE said he would ensure the judicious and transparent use of the

scarce resources.
On Disaster Management, he stated that he would assess the disaster

readiness of NADMO and identify flood-prone areas to take steps to address

the problems.
He said the Assembly would liaise with the Town and Country Planning

Department to identify challenges confronting them in the implementation of

Development Schemes for redress.
GNA