VIP SUPPORTS KMA WITH TRUCK, TRICYCLES

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The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly, KMA, will next month launch a city-wide operation to provide litter bins at vantage points throughout the metropolis to encourage responsible rubbish disposal among both residents and visitors. 

The exercise forms part of an initiative of the Chief Executive, Osei Assibey Antwi, code-named ‘Keep the City Clean and Green’ to restore Kumasi to its former status as the Garden City of West Africa. 

Mr. Osei Assibey Antwi made this known in Kumasi when he received on behalf of the KMA, a six-wheeler truck and four brand new tricycles popularly known as Aboboyaa valued at 500 thousand Ghana Cedis from the VIP Transport company. 

The machines are part of the transport company’s contribution towards the operation ‘Keep the City Clean and Green’. 

The Metro Chief noted that the initiative has so far received very encouraging support from both the corporate world and religious groups some of which have made substantial contributions in both cash and kind. 

According to him, as a result of its strategic geographic location, Kumasi receives an average of one point-five million visitors on daily basis who either come to transact business or make transit. 

These visitors, Mr. Osei Assibey Antwi noted, also contribute to the huge volumes of wastes generated in the city. 

He therefore entreated transporters who convey such people to the metropolis to provide waste collection bins in their respective vehicles to collect rubbish generated by the passengers.

 The drivers and their mates should as well constantly educate their passengers to properly dispose of their wastes to keep both the vehicles and the environment clean always. 

Mr. Osei Assibey appealed to individuals. Corporate institutions and groups to support the waste management initiatives with logistics and any other relevant material for its success.

 The General Manager of the VIP, Adakabre Frimpong Manso, disclosed that the company transports an average of 500 thousand commuters to and from Kumasi every month. 

These passengers, he admitted, also generate significant wastes. 

Mr. Frimpong Manso noted also that despite paying taxes to the KMA, the city authorities have contributed to the success of the company in its 10 years of operation hence the donation of the waste collection truck and the tricycles. These are meant to boost efforts by the KMA to keep Kumasi clean.


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