By Benjamin A. Commey
Gomoa Fetteh(C/R), Jan. 14, GNA – Dr Joseph Siaw Agyepong, the Executive Chairman of Jospong Group of Companies, has urged metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs) to ensure strict enforcement of the various bye laws on sanitation to help tackle filth in the country.
Dr Agyepong, who is the owner of Zoomlion, said as a waste management company, it was doing a lot to deal with the sanitation issues that confronted the nation.
However, he noted that enforcement of sanitation laws had not been effective over the years, crippling efforts in tackling the menace.
Speaking to the media on the sidelines of the opening of the 2025 Jospong Leadership Conference at the Pentecost Convention Centre at Gomoa Fetteh in the Central Region, on Monday, Dr Agyepong bemoaned the filth that had engulfed major cities in the country, stressing that ensuring strict enforcement of the various sanitation bye laws, was critical in bringing sanity to the cities.
“Zoomlion, currently, we have been able to put up infrastructure to deal with the green economy (that is sanitation issues). In every region, we have a waste treatment plant, in Accra here we have about three or four treatment plants. Now, we have to do with enforcement, the enforcement is the challenge. People are dumping in the middle of the streets, the tricycle guys go and pick and then they just dump it up, you have the junkies and people going around.
“It is not like an indiscriminate dumping, people intentionally dump. You go to circle, etc, and when we go and pick it, the next morning it is there again,” he indicated.
He added that: “We as a private company don’t have law to enforce, we are private service providers, we collect the waste but if somebody is an offender, we cannot call him to book, we cannot arrest him, we are handicap in doing that so the law goes with the assembly, the bye laws are with the district assemblies, they have the operation clean your frontage bye laws and all that. They should assist us in enforcing this so that people who are causing that issue must be brought to book.”
The five days conference, the 12th edition, held for top-level management and staff of the company, including top executives, boards, cluster boards, executives and middle, sought to deal with issues about leadership in a transformational way to achieve its goals.
Also, it served as a platform for the company to strategise for the new year.
The conference was on the theme: “Transformation Through Leadership.”
Dr Agyepong emphasised the company’s commitment to prioritising job creation to tackle the evergrowing unemployment rate in the country.
He, therefore, endorsed the new government’s 24-hour economy policy, which he said was a “good initiative,” adding that the company had begun aligning its operations to the policy as a way of supporting the government to achieve its development goals.
He pledged support for the new administration in all facets, especially in creating jobs for the youth of the country.
“We at Jospong want to pledge our fullest support for all activities that his term he is going to enshrine to ensure the development of this country, especially with job creation. By our culture and naturally God-gifted talent, we are people who create employees,” he indicated.
He urged executives of the company to be transformational leaders, motivate, inspire and prioritise the needs of workers to achieve other goals of the organisation.
GNA