The Ministry of Special Development Initiatives is reported to have signed a contract with Zoomlion Ghana Limited, enabling the recycle company to distribute plastic recycling machines to certain districts around the country.

This has been confirmed in a letter signed by Mavis Hawa Koomson, the sector minister indicating that the District Chief Executives (DCEs) in the chosen who are the benefactors of the recycling machines were to provide lands for the commencement of the project.

“The Ministry of Special Development Initiatives, in order to realize the Government’s vision to transform rural and urban communities, identified sanitation as one of its priority areas. This aims at instituting proper sanitation and waste management system, which will improve health and the general living standards of the people,”  the statement read.

“You are being requested to help provide a suitable land area, which has access to electricity to facilitate this process, which will improve the waste management system in the country,” the letter added.

Costs of the project and the specific districts which will receive the machines were not stated in the letter

This latest development comes at a time when many are questioning the relevance of the ministry after its 2018 budget allocation was found to be at least five times of what other key ministries were allocated.

The Ministry has also come under serious criticism for allocating GHS8,000 for the creation of a website.

Even though it has attempted to clarify that the amount was a typographical error many are of the view that it was an attempt to obtain from the national coffers sums of money but an alarm was raised by the minority in parliament.

Ghanaguardian.com