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AMA Boss Fires World Bank |
| Chief Executive of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), Stanley Adjiri Blankson has taken a swipe at the World Bank office in Ghana for what he termed as its uncharitable nature towards his outfit.
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The AMA boss alleged that the World Bank had deliberately refused to grant his outfit the needed assistance by thwarting their efforts towards ensuring that the city was rid of filth.
“We have fulfilled all the requirements set up the World Bank for the assistance to help start the waste dump site at Kwabenya but it looks as if they are not ready to grant us the support,” he said.
The Metropolitan Chief Executive made this known when members of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Local Government and Rural Development embarked on a fact finding tour to ascertain the progress being made towards implementing the decentralization policy at the Assembly level.
The Mayor of Accra averred that the Oblogo refuse dump, which is currently serving as a dumping site for some parts of Accra, was almost on the verge of being closed down this August adding that it was in the light of this that the AMA wanted to relocate the site to Kwabenya.
Mr Stanley Adjiri Blankson described the sanitation situation in the city as unfortunate and that all hands were needed to help arrest the situation.
The major problem confronting the Assembly according to the Chief Executive was the re-emergence of recalcitrant hawkers on pavements and streets after his outfit had spent millions of cedis to put up the shopping mall for them at circle.
“The hawkers’ request for customary rites at the mall had been successfully done and we see no reason why they should be on the streets and create both vehicular and pedestrian confusion.”
He said there was the need for change at the way things were being done in the country pleading with Members of Parliament to help support the AMA in its quest to fight against the recalcitrant hawkers which he described as a source of headache to him.
The Mayor of Accra added that the creation of new districts out of the old ones was becoming problematic.
He mentioned inadequate qualified staff to man the various departments and units of the Assembly and uncontrolled physical developments in the metropolis as some of the problems facing his outfit.
Chairman of the parliamentary committee, Honorable Isaac Edumadze said as a legal rim of the Assembly and the Local Government Ministry, there was the need for his outfit to find avenues to help strengthen structures at the level.
Honorable Edumadze added that as people were clamoring for laws to be enacted to make it an offence to sell on the streets, it was also important for them to look at the flip side by also punishing those who patronized the goods of street hawkers.
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