Kumasi residents demonstrate against the mismanagement of Oti's landfill site | General news

RESIDENTS AROUND Oti's discharge have organized a protest against the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) for allegedly failing to handle the site of the landfill.

According to residents, the mismanagement of the landfill recently produced a pungent odor from all over the community.

The protest, which has hitherto blocked important activities on the site, began around 7 am on Monday, March 25, 2019.

Garbage trucks and tricycles have been lined up waiting to unload their contents, but can not do so because of the outbreak.

Organizers of the protest, led by the local badembly, Elliot Ofosu Bano, said the demonstration would continue unabated until the authorities make a decisive decision.

They want the KMA to entrust the landfill site and liquid waste treatment facility to the Asokwa Municipal Assembly, which has jurisdiction over the Atonsu-Kuwait community.

They claimed that the KMA was struggling to handle the approximately 1,200 metric tons of waste dumped daily at the landfill, which posed risks to the environment.

The Oti community, known as Atonsu-Kuwait, is home to the burial site located on a 100-acre lot surrounded by residential buildings.

Mr. Bano stated that the KMA had failed to fumigate the place and did so only yesterday (Sunday) after hearing about the protest.

"My people is farther with the fragile excuses. We want the landfill site to be either co-managed by the Asokwa Municipal Assembly or entrusted to it, because the community of Oti is no longer under the authority of the KMA, "he told DGN Online.