North East Region: Residents of Langbinsi urge authorities to relocate dumping site

The residents of Langbinsi in the North East Region have called on authorities to help the community maintain a clean environment to avoid diseases.

The residents say sanitation campaigns should be enhanced to mitigate the indiscriminate dumping of refuse in the community.

In Langbinis in the East Mamprusi municipality, garbage is thrown out haphazardly at the centre of the community posing health risks to the residents.

Shop owners and food vendors around the vicinity of the garbage dump site are sometimes compelled to close their shops due to the bad odour around the area.

Residents complain that the toilet facilities constructed at the waste dumping site in the community have been abandoned compelling some of them to practice open defecation.

Shop owners including the assembly member for the area say the municipal assembly has been informed about the situation but nothing has been done to relocate the dumping site which is in the centre of the community.

The assemblyman for the Langbinsi electoral area, Adam Kabiru told Asaase News that the municipal assembly is collecting revenue from shop owners around the refuse dump but not working to collect the rubbish from the centre of the town.

He said, “Environmental health officers themselves came and inspected it, our MCE, and everybody is aware of it and they are doing nothing about it.”

“Just look at these stores, we are taking revenue from them and look at the community and the people working closer. It causes a lot of mess. So, if they can help to convey this rubbish, we would be very glad.”

Abdul Rashid Nasibatu Malititi, a food vendor at the market near the dumping site also said “It is not supposed to be lying down here. Whenever Zoomlion sweeps the rubbish and everything, they will dump them over there and it is not good. Goats, sheep, everything when they die, they will throw them over there and they will be smelling. So, sometimes when we come here we find it difficult to breathe.”

Adongo Evans, a resident and a shop owner is also appealing to the municipal assembly and the sanitation officials to relocate the dumping site and rehabilitate the abandoned toilet facilities in the area.

Reporting by Dokurugu Alhassan in the North East Region

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