Regional News of Sunday, 18 September 2016Source: GhanaWebAbokobi-Pantang landfill site to be movedAbokobi landfillMr. John Kwao Sackey, Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of Ga East, has disclosed that the landfill site that has brought discomfort to residents of Abokobi-Pantang and its environs would soon be a thing of the past. According to Mr. Sackey, the Assembly in partnership with a private waste management company, Waste Landfills Company, are working to purge the town of insects as an adhoc measure with eventual plans to move landfill entirely to a new site. Mr. Sackey made disclosed these after a fumigation exercise at the Abokobi-Pantang landfill site, Pantang Government Hospital area and its environs. The Operations Manager of Waste Landfill Company, Mr. Richard Omane-Mensah, said the fumigation exercise has seen positive result within the past years and also the Waste landfill company is putting a transfer station at the site. “We have on our program operation of a waste transfer station to help us cover or de-commission this site whilst the transfer station is working.

Source: GhanaWeb September 18, 2016 18:33 UTC