As the rains set in and the threat of cholera looms, more waste management contractors continue to cry out to government to pay all arrears owed landfill site operators.
The Environmental Service Providers Association (ESPA), an association of waste management companies, last week hinted that landfill site operators were considering a shut down due to the unsettled arrears.
[contextly_sidebar id=”DV3DJ6DtCbtphJuIBw7Ljjp8XK8DCBPT”]The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of Zoomlion Company Limited, Robert Coleman, says the situation is affecting the operations of the waste management companies and added that some have resorted to borrowing from banks to avert a crisis.
He told Citi News in an interview that “If the people who manage the final disposal sites are not paid certainly they will not have the means to continue to operate.”
“As I speak to you now, we are very much aware that government owes most of these contractors who are working at the final disposal sites huge sums of money and we are working assiduously with government to ensure that this backlog is cleared, so that we can work effectively so that all the waste management contractors, when they collect the waste they will have a place to come and dump.
“Some of us have decided to approach our bankers to see how best they would be able to support us in these trying times and government must be able to do something about it,” Mr. Coleman added.
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By: Godwin A. Allotey/citifmonline.com/Ghana