MAHAMA'S NATIONAL SANITATION EXERCISE IS A TRAGIC WASTE OF VALUABLE RESOURCES AND TIME; A PRESS RELEASE BY UNITED FOR CHANGE MOVEMENT

Many were the Ghanaian youth who jumped with wild jubilation when former President Kuffuor introduced the National Youth Employment Scheme which had a component of sanitation module employing thousands of our youth.
Best practices informed the then President Atta Mills' administration to continue with what President Kuffuor had left behind.
Jospong Group of Companies represented by Zoomlion was contracted to manage the sanitation module with our taxes.
Things started deteriorating soon after the demise of President Mills. Filth began to spring up all over the country as though Ghana was a room without a window, a Nation without a leader.
As a matter of fact, the whole nation was being engulfed with filth.
People started asking very pertinent questions about the capability of Zoomlion to manage that department efficiently because of the way sanitation has been abandoned in the various towns, villages and cities.
To make a long story short, President John Mahama is now asking Ghanaians to pick up the mantle of cleaning their own environment which hitherto was in the capable hands of Zoomlion.
President Mahama's administration instituted
the National Sanitation Day which falls on the first Saturday of every month after the filth became
overwhelming resulting in a record breaking cholera outbreak.
The United For Change Movement is therefore asking these salient questions;
1. How much money was sunk into the previous exercises?
2. As refuse collectors and cleaners strike for not being paid, couldn't this money be channeled to the refuse collectors and cleaners to motivate them to undertake their work effectively.
3. What has happened to Zoomlion and Zoil?
4.Why must Ghanaians willingly get involved in this cleanup when people have been employed to do so?
5. What happened to our taxes? Are they not being used to pay Zoomlion and Zoil to clean the environment?
Why are we honouring the contract if Zoomlion and Zoil have failed to live up to expectation?
More to the point, filth gathered after the exercise are left close to gutters and on the street without being collected. This makes the filth go back into the gutters and streets making the exercise useless and worthless.
Retired General Nunoo-Mensah, not too long ago, threw cold water on the sanitation exercise, calling it an exercise in futility since we are paying people to clean the streets.
We are of the opinion that our villages, towns and cities have been overtaken by filth due to President Mahama's failure to sack and appoint competent and capable people to prosecute such duties and also failing to release the District Assembly Common Fund part of which is used to take care of our sanitation issues.
Why must Ghanaians suffer for the incompetence of the Mahama administration and that of his appointees?
In our considered opinion it is a tragic waste of time for Ghanaians to be compelled to jump into gutters with the sole aim of cleaning them whereas we have paid taxes for Zoomlion or Zoil to be paid to do their job.
Moreover, the whole exercise will be hijacked by politicians and be turned into a funfair with brassband music and all. A total waste of resources and time.
We therefore call on all Ghanaians to ignore this unholy call for all and sundry to vigorously participate in this cleanup exercise. They have taken us for granted for far too long.
They should start earning their fat salaries and allowances by cleaning the mess they've created.

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MR. ROBBIE SARKODIE KLINSMAN : +447534455242
MR. KWADJO ANIM : 0507010101 /+4915210555432
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