Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Hon. Lydia Seyram Alhassan, has commissioned Zoomlion’s transformative Integrated Recycling and Compost Plant in Sunyani.
Addressing the colourful durbar of chiefs, people, and departmental heads of state institutions at Nwawasua near Sunyani, Hon. Alhassan who is also the Member of Parliament for the Ayawaso West Wugon Constituency took the opportunity to praise the chiefs and people of the Bono Region touting the resilience of the region in always keeping their environment clean.
She said when it comes to cleanliness Bono Region, especially the Regional Capital, is always clean by all standards and it was partly because of the concern and frantic efforts taken by the traditional rulers and the people themselves.
She said the time has come for Ghana to celebrate the successes chalked in waste management infrastructural transformation following Jospong Group’s construction of 16 waste treatment and recycling plants across the regions in the past four years with 10 of them being operational while six are at various levels of completion.
Hon. Alhassan showered praises on the Executive Chairman and the entire management and staff of the Jospong Group of Companies for transforming the waste management industry of Ghana.
She stated that the strategic establishment of the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources by President Akufo-Addo to spearhead policy formulation and create an enabling environment for the private sector to thrive towards a cleaner Ghana was anchored by the likes of Dr Joseph Siaw Agyepong and that has resulted in the many waste infrastructures springing up in Ghana today.
She therefore appealed to the people of Sunyani to embrace the facility and channel their waste to it for processing and recycling especially composting the organic waste for agricultural purposes and the recycling of plastics for household and recreational uses.
On her part, the Minister of Environment, Science, Technology, and Innovation (MESTI) and Member of Parliament for Mfantsipim, Hon. Ophelia Mensah Hayford, said global warming has brought about climate change to the environment that has caused the depletion of the ozone layer as a result of the consistent production of carbon dioxide by individual acts which calls for measures to mitigate these causes globally.
She said the efforts of the Executive Chairman of the Jospong Group of Companies is the definition of climate change mitigation.
She was not surprised that the Government of Switzerland offered to draw Ghana into the carbon trade market due to the Jospong efforts.
She said this brings about economic improvement to the country.
Madam Hayford called on Ghanaians to get involved in the fight against indiscriminate waste disposal and the many other acts that contribute to climate change.
The Executive Chairman of the Jospong Group of Companies, Dr. Joseph Siaw Agyepong, recounted the humble beginning of Zoomlion Ghana Limited when it commenced operations in Bolgatanga with only one manual tricycle.
He said prayers, commitment, and resilience have brought the company this far and he was grateful to God almighty for everything.
Dr. Agyepong commended the chiefs and people of the Bono region especially the Nwawasua Chief and Queen Mother for the release of land for the establishment of the facility to cater for the entire Bono Region.
