Residents protest against the delay in handing over the Oti landfill site to the Asokwa Assembly

Some residents near the Oti landfill site in the municipality of Asokwa (ASKMA) in Kumasi on Monday morning, blocked the entrance to the landfill claiming that they wanted the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) to speed up the transfer process of its site management at the Asokwa Municipal Assembly.

the The residents claimed that the KMA was deaf to their fate and demanded that, the community now belonging to a new Asokwa badembly, the management of the landfill be entrusted to them to allow the new badembly reply to their needs.

Residents claimed that the KMA and the site management had waived the agreement with the residents to proceed with a regular fumigation of the site to prevent the fault. odour to engulf the communities of the region.

Led by the member of the Kuwait-Oti-Aprabo Electoral District Assembly, m Elliot Ofosu Barnor, who is also the chair of the committee ASKMA, demonstrators wore red and black armbands and pickets at the entrance to the site prevented trash trucks and tricycles from accessing the area to deposit garbage.

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The member of the badembly of the region, m Barnor said residents have filed several complaints with the KMA and the regional coordination council about the negative effects of the landfill on the communities.

According to him, after the announcement of the imminent demonstration, KMA officers came to Oti Sunday to proceed with the fumigation of houses ", but that will not prevent us from asking that what is right be completed. "

He added that the KMA's ongoing management of the site was depriving residents of the necessary support from the government. ASKMA as the new badembly in which is the site at control over it.