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GREATER ACCRA REGIONAL MINISTER URGED MMDAs TO ENFORCE OPERATION CLEAN YOUR FRONTAGE.

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The Greater Accra Regional Minister Mr Henry Quartey has directed the MMDAs in the region to enforce the operation clean your frontage, as a result the La Dade-Kotopon Municipal Assembly (LaDMA ) on Thursday August 25, 2022 embarked on the enforcement of the exercise across the ten electoral areas of the municipality.

According to Mr Patrick W. Tsigbey the environmental health director, the exercise was to have a clean and healthy environment to enhance the image of the municipality. He said the municipality is one of the key MMDAs in the region, which holds a lot of industries, hotels, embassies, the Kotoka International airport, and other high institutions. He said, every clean city worldwide attracts investors and for that matter, the management of the assembly find it fit to keep the area clean.

Activities for the exercise included sweeping of public places, removal of waste from the gutters, weeding of open spaces, educating the public on the byelaws.

ladma partners with GAYO

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La Dade-Kotopon Municipal Assembly (LaDMA) has partnered with the Ghana Youth Advocacy Organization (GAYO), an NGO dedicated to improving sanitation in various communities. The partnership aims to improve the sanitation situation in the municipality by promoting good waste management practices and creating awareness about the importance of proper sanitation.

According to Hon. Solomon Nikoi, the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of LaDMA, the partnership is part of the assembly’s efforts to ensure that the municipality is clean and healthy for all residents. He further noted that the assembly is committed to working with relevant stakeholders to achieve its sanitation goals.

The partnership with GAYO will involve joint efforts to create awareness about proper waste management practices, including the separation of waste at the source, composting, and recycling. Additionally, GAYO will support LaDMA in its efforts to enforce sanitation regulations, especially regarding the disposal of waste in unauthorized areas.

The partnership with GAYO is just one of the many initiatives that LaDMA has undertaken to improve sanitation in the municipality. The assembly has also intensified its efforts to provide waste collection services and enforce sanitation regulations, including the prosecution of individuals who violate the rules.

The partnership with GAYO is expected to go a long way in improving the sanitation situation in LaDMA. With the support of GAYO and other stakeholders, the assembly is optimistic that it can achieve its goal of making the municipality one of the cleanest and healthiest in the country.

LaDMA PLANT TREES TO GREEN THE MUNICIPALITY

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The La Dade-Kotopon Municipal Assembly on Friday June 10, 2022 plated 15,000 seedlings across the municipality as part of the activities to mark the Green Ghana Day.

The Municipal Chief Executive for La Dade-Kotopon Municipal Assembly Rev. Solomon Kotey Nikoi planted the first sprout at Tenasi Junior High School at Ako Adjei followed by the Coordinating Director Mr Daniel Nkrumah and the Municipal Education Director Ms Habiba Kotomah, Mrs Emelia Monney the Director for Agric and the Assembly Members.

Speaking to the media Rev. Solomon Kotey Nikoi called on all stakeholders to actively participate in the exercise and fully take responsibility of the seedlings planted. He said the future of La and that of Ghana would depend on how well the citizenry will protect the seedlings.

On the part of the director for Agric, she said her outfit in collaboration with the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) and other relevant department and units under the assembly are to persistently monitor the development of the seedlings and offer any technical support to any member in the community to enable the trees to mature well.

She mentioned that prior to the exercise the assembly had embarked on an awareness creation to prepare residents on the exercise and how to monitor and upkeep for the seedlings.

Mrs Kotomah assured her outfit support towards the exercise by ensuring that each school plants trees in and around their schools. She pointed out that, the trees planting which have come to stay would help address environmental issues in the country.

PRCC FIELD TRIP UNCOVERS COMMUNITY CONCERNS IN BOUGAINVILLEA STRETCH, TSE ADDO, AND AGYEMANG-LA

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The Public Relations and Complaints Committee has been hard at work in addressing concerns raised by residents of Agyemang and Madam Linda Stepper. The committee, together with some technocrats, embarked on a trip to the locations to assess the situation and make recommendations.

During the visit to Madam Linda Stepper’s residence, it was discovered that her neighbor had wrongfully joined a wall to hers, blocking a drain and causing flooding in her house. At Hyde Out Pub, the team found that the noise levels from the operations of the pub were causing a nuisance in the neighborhood. Smoke from shisha and cigarettes made it difficult for residents to breathe clean air, while pieces of cigarette were left on the ground and children in the area picked them up to emulate the smoking habit.

The pub owner also constructed a minor drain, which was stagnant and bred mosquitoes. In addition, customers indiscriminately parked on the street of the neighborhood. The team observed that a portion of the pub was constructed on a minor drain, which extended to the walkway of the owner’s neighbors, and that portion was uncovered and stagnant.

The trip to the two locations was successful, and the Committee has scheduled another field trip to assess the neighbor’s wall joining Madam Linda Stepper’s. Mr. Evans Todzro, an Environmental Health Department Officer, has been tasked to conduct a thorough investigation on the activities of the Hyde Out Pub and submit a report to the Committee.

The Public Relations and Complaints Committee is committed to addressing the concerns of residents in the municipality and ensuring that their complaints are heard and acted upon. It is important to note that participation from the public is crucial in ensuring that issues are identified and resolved in a timely manner.

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND SANITATION OFFICERS RECEIVED CAPACITY BUILDING IN THEIR CORE MANDATES

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The La Dade-Kotopon Municipal Assembly, LaDMA organised two days training programme for the environmental health and sanitation officers operating in the municipality to improve on the state of environmental health and sanitation issues militating against the municipality. The training held at the Municipal Assembly Conference room on Tuesday March 29, 2022 and ended on Wednesday March 30, 2022.

Addressing the participants, Mr Daniel Nkrumah (Coordinating director of LaDMA) said the EHOs, and EHAs owned the responsibilities to ensure that the municipality is clean. He said the training was to sharpen the skills of participants in delivery of their routine tasks, by enforcing environmental standards and regulations in the municipality.

 Engineer Lukman Yahya Salifu, Mr Maxwell Opoku Agyeman, Esq, and Engineer Evans Darko Mensah from Messrs WasteCare Associates, an environmental sanitation consultancy firm, facilitated the training.

The training was to equip the participants with the skills of principles of basic law and procedure for prosecuting environmental health and sanitation offences, monitoring and evaluation techniques and report writing. Engineer Lukman Yahya Salifu schooled the participants on report writing on environmental health and sanitation services.  Mr Maxwell Agyeman took the participants through Basic training in environmental health and sanitation prosecution whiles Engineer Evans Darko Mensah took the participants through environmental monitoring and evaluation (M&E) for EHOs and EHAs 

Participants were drawn from EHOs/ EHAs made up of fifteen females and ten males. Participants expressed their appreciation to the directorates, for organising the training.

LaDMA MARK CLEAN UP EXERCISE IN HONOUR OF THE LATE LA PARAMOUNT CHIEF

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The La Dade-Kotopon Municipal Assembly (LaDMA) marked the funeral ceremony of the late Paramount chief of La Traditional Authority, Dr. Nii Kpobi Tetteh Tsuru with a massive clean-up exercise on Saturday March 13, 2022.

The exercise was carried out in all the ten electoral areas in the municipality. The exercise attracted a lot of citizenry in the municipality.Responding to the importance of the exercise, some of the residents who joined the programme believe in such a time, it is prudent for the people as stakeholders to join hands with the assembly to ensure that the municipality maintains its status as the cleanest in the country. They bemoaned the absence of communal labour in the country where both young and old work together for clean environment.

Zero Waste Accra Consultative Meeting with Waste Pickers and Collectors

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In line with the President’s vision to make Accra the cleanest City in Africa,  La Dade Kotopon Municipal Assembly have been working with Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO) to  implement the Zero Waste Accra Project which aims to work with the  informal waste workers and SMES to divert #waste from landfills whiles providing #jobs for communities. This partnership is geared towards developing a sound waste management strategy to institute Zero Waste practices across Municipalities in the country.

GAYO’s underlying motivation is to work directly with local communities to reduce the vulnerability of groups that are at risk to climate impacts such as children, youth and women, who have a comparatively less adaptive capacity due to social and structural inequalities.  The Zero Waste City/Accra Project has been inspired by  GAYO’s Sustainable Community Project (SCP) which is being implemented in peri-urban areas across three MMDAs in Ghana, namely, the Adansi South District of Ghana, The SCP is the first community-led circular economy project in Ghana which is creating a zero-waste model for solid waste management in peri-urban communities by converting waste into several useful products including, recycled products (raincoat, bags, aprons etc.), Compost fertilizer from organic waste and using agricultural waste to produce charcoal briquette  amongst other items. Through several partnerships with SMEs and local government offices, this project has created green jobs, built the capacity of informal waste pickers, and reduced waste from landfills.

Following the success of the Sustainable Community Project in peri-urban communities, the  Zero Waste City/Accra project proposes to deliver a community -driven Zero Waste strategy that will drive waste from oceans and mangrove ecosystems to a material recovery facility and businesses for processing. Additionally, the Zero Waste City Model will create a new green and blue circular economy for vulnerable people in the municipality by training existing SMEs to use municipal waste as raw materials to create useful products.

As a structure in the local system of Ghana, the project is in line with LaDMA’s commitment of enhancing the social-economic well being of the people through an effective and efficient delivery system.

As part of the zero waste strategy development process, the parties convened a consultative meeting with informal waste pickers within LaDMA and the Accra Metropolitan Area (AMA) to document the contributions of all relevant stakeholders. This is to promote inclusive participation in the Accra Zero Waste city project with a bottom-up approach of model development. Key on the agenda for the day’s meeting was to understand how to co-create the needed components to achieve a Zero Waste  city by working with waste collectors and pickers to support their work in the recovery of ‘valuable’ waste materials and for proper community sensitization.

The Accra Zero Waste Project focuses on the informal waste sector, therefore it seeks to strengthen the sector’s collaboration in ways that will promote local ownership and enhance informal sector access to wider benefits in the waste management sector. With a signed Memorandum of Understanding between GAYO and the LaDMA, over the next 18 months, GAYO will work with LADMA to ensure a sound  Solid waste Management Strategy for LaDMA is developed and put into practice.

 

Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO), is a youth-led gender-balanced organization that focuses on environmental sustainability and community development. Our thematic areas include, climate change, Disaster Risk Reduction and Circular Economy. In our quest to achieve our vision, we research and provide solutions to pressing environmental issues through the establishment of community-based circular economy models which encompasses advocacy, stakeholders’ engagement, enterprise development and public education