Kumasi, which is the capital town of Ashanti region and the second largest city in Ghana is touted as filth city because of much filth waste that has engulfed streets, pavements and markets places, the Executive director of Save Ghana Foundation, Mr. Kofi Adjei, has said.
According to the Executive director, the name the ‘Garden City’ came in the wake of its many beautiful species of flowers and plants in many various places especially, the principal streets but what we see now is indiscipline on the part of some citizens who have developed a habit of throwing refuse everywhere without considering its effects on the environment.
“We wake up every morning, walk,drive,stay and work in filth all day especially, the central business unit of Kumasi but the city authorities who are supposed to ensure the streets and drains are free from filth to maintain the free flow of water when raining don’t care about it and what do we see now”, he said.
Mr. Kofi Adjei of Save Ghana Foundation was of the view that various stakeholders which includes religious leaders, political leaders, agencies and the law enforcement institutions have woefully failed on the fight on sanitation in the city of Kumasi including unlawful cutting down of trees to build stores.
He told this reporter that those aforementioned leaders in the city never cared about the environment but only thinking of how they can have fleets of cars, surrounding the city with stores and organizing some needless press conferences.
The executive director of Save Ghana Foundation believed Mr.Kojo Bonsu exit from his post as KMA boss was as a result of variety of issues of which sanitation was among.
He reminded that the Kumasi traditional council attributed the bad state of Kumasi to Mr.Kojo Bonsu administration and citing that at a point, piled refuse could be on the streets for days but there was a chief executive who could have instructed his people to work according to their role to ensure the full functioning of the assembly leading to clean environment.
Mr. Adjei warned that if care is not taken, Kumasi will continue to wallop in excessive filth which will render the city unclean.
More so, the city will also experience outbreaks of various forms of diseases which to him will pose danger to our health as people living in the city.
Many people, the executive director said, will lose their lives if the authorities do not wake up from their slumber to fully work to save the situation that will lead people to their early grave.
On what they as a foundation have in mind to suggest to those in charge to prevent the Garden City from sinking into the mud, he mentioned that putting dustbins at various vantage points, campaigning on effects of improper handling of sanitation and enforcing sanitation laws.
‘’Save Ghana Foundation is calling on the waste management department of the KMA to devise ways to improve sanitation situation in Kumasi or face citizens wrath some weeks to come”, he warned.