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Regional News of Monday, March 25, 2019
Source: dailyguidenetwork.com
2019-03-25
The organizers say the event would go so far as decisive action is taken
Residents of the Oti landfill have staged a protest against the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) for allegedly failing to properly manage the landfill site.
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.
The organizers of the event, led by local deputy Elliot Ofosu Bano, said the protest would remain unchanged until the authorities took decisive action.
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.
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