The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), will be registering private tricycle waste collectors, also known as, “Borla Taxis”, as part of efforts to coordinate waste management.
The registration, set to start in July, is mandatory and also supposed to be free, the AMA said in a statement.
“As part of efforts to bring sanity into the operations of the Private Tricycle Waste Collectors popularly called ‘Borla Taxis’ or ‘Aboboyaa’, the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) will begin registration of all operators from Wednesday 4th July to Tuesday 31st July 2018 excluding Sundays.”
“The registration will be done at various dump sites, waste transfer stations, AMA Waste Management Department at Kaneshie and other designated locations in the city,” the AMA said.
After the registration, “any tricycle operating within the AMA’s jurisdiction from August 2018 without the AMA embossment will be arrested and prosecuted,” the AMA warned.
This forms the latest move by the AMA to “achieve the clean Accra goal.”
There had been reports that some of the tricycles were dumping waste indiscriminately in some parts of Accra, especially along the Tema Motorway.
Find below the full statement
As part of efforts to bring sanity into the operations of the Private Tricycle Waste Collectors popularly called ‘Borla Taxis’ or ‘Aboboyaa’, the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) will begin registration of all operators from Wednesday 4th July to Tuesday 31st July 2018 excluding Sundays. The registration will be done at various dump sites, waste transfer stations, AMA Waste Management Department at Kaneshie and other designated locations in the city.
The AMA wishes to inform the general public, especially ‘Borla Taxi’ or ‘Aboboyaa’ operators that the purpose of the registration exercise is to identify all the service providers in the waste management value chain, coordinate, monitor and control their activities in pursuit of the ‘Clean Accra Project’. This is also to aid in further engagement with the operators to enhance their capacity in health and safety, environmental management and business development.
The registration is FREE and MANDATORY, and any tricycle operating within the AMA’s jurisdiction from August 2018 without the AMA embossment will be arrested and prosecuted.
We assure the general public that adequate steps are being taken to achieve the clean Accra goal and that AMA will not hesitate to prosecute people whose actions draw us back in accordance with the law.
The AMA wishes to call on all adjoining municipalities and district assemblies to register ‘Borla Taxi’ operators within their areas to support the realization of the project goals.
Accra: live in! Love it!!
SIGNED.
Gilbert Nii Ankrah
HEAD OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
FOR: METRO CHIEF EXECUTIVE
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Source: Citinrewsroom.com/Ghana
