Irritated residents of Old Fertilizer, a suburb of Teshie in Accra, have served notice, they will soon hit the streets and close down the ZOMPAK, managers of a composite plant in the area.
The residents say they are always falling sick as a result of constant inhalation of dust, because the company’s trucks have destroyed their roads.
“A next-door neighbor’s daughter always gets seizures because the daughter is an asthmatic patient and we have continued to hit on this issue but nobody seems to be listening to us. Early on, they told us they will fix the road for us but nothing is happening… We are also human beings living in this area and somebody cannot do his business at the expense of our health,” one of them, who gave his name as Mr. Ferguson, told Citi News.
[contextly_sidebar id=”ISAZKqt5gZowax63nvwWu28J76yKZzeF”]The agitated residents told Citi News’ Kojo Agyeman, that several complaints to management of the company to get the road fixed have proven futile after numerous promises.
They said the dust generated from the constant use of the road by the huge trucks is hazardous to the health of their children as well.
Citi News’ Kojo Agyeman who visited the community around 9:00am on Wednesday said he struggled to breathe because of the dust.
According to him, the trucks that move in and around Accra use the road regularly, generating “a lot of dust.”
“We living in the estate here cannot sit outside our compound during the day time. All the trucks that pick refuse with Zoomlion logos, this is where they come to dump their refuse. Forget about the stench because we have lived with it and we will continue to live with it; but the dust is creating a lot of problems for us,” Ferguson complained.
He warned, they would soon be forced to embark on a massive demonstration to lock up the dump site.
Another resident, who gave her name as Nana Ama said, “It’s so unfortunate the kind of things we are going through in this area. There are times your room is filled with so much dust. I have two children who are allergic to dust and I am always buying medicine. The dust is really killing us…”
Citi News’ Kojo Agyeman said efforts to speak to managers of the composite plant proved futile.
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By:Kojo Agyemang/Ebenezer Afanyi Dadzie/citifmonline.com/Ghana