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Nicknamed "The Sanitation Challenge for Ghana" (SC4Gh), the competition aims to help cities to propose and implement sustainable liquid waste management strategies.
The KMA has so far successfully implemented all the strategies it has proposed to improve the disposal of liquid waste as part of the contest requirements.
The KMA would also submit its documents on Wednesday 27 March 2019.
Osei Assibey Bonsu, Senior Engineer at KMA, was confident that the KMA would win the award as she had worked tirelessly over the past four years.
According to him, the badembly has done enough to win the "Dignified City Award", whose winner would be announced in July.
Contest of sanitation
The program was launched in October 2015 by 139 metropolitan, municipal and district (MMDA) bademblies across the country that competed for the first prize.
It will officially end on March 27 and the number of participants has been reduced to 17 but placed in two groups for the final competition.
Three metropolitan bademblies and six municipal bademblies will be competing for £ 400,000.
The other group, consisting of eight district bademblies, will also hold a £ 285,000 competition.
The various competing bademblies submitted reports on their proposals to improve liquid waste management in their cities.
The achievements of the KMA
Joshua Tetteh-Nortey, Planning Manager at KMA, said that KMA has successfully implemented and delivered 1,900 Container Sanitation Systems (CBS).
He said that Moshie Zongo, a densely populated area, where access to sanitary facilities is a major challenge, has received 149 pieces of CBS.
Tetteh-Nortey said the KMA has also revised its regulations and forced all households to own toilets.
He added that thanks to the efforts of the KMA, toilets had been built in the constituency schools of Bantama and Manhyia North by their deputies.
He stated that the empty tank operators had received technical and commercial training from the KMA to improve service delivery.
He added that the KMA had contacted Sinapi Aba, a financial institution, to provide low-rate loans to homeowners to build toilets.
The KMA official also said that a concrete platform had been built at the Oti backfill site to allow empty tanks to properly evacuate liquid waste.
Mayor's role
The KMA, headed by Osei Assibey-Antwi, the director general, took sanitation issues seriously, in line with the government's plan to clean up Ghana.
The Mayor of Kumasi drew muted gutters and also conducted evening clean-up exercises in the city to set a good example.
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