Zoomlion Supports AMA With Cars & Bikes

Zoomlion Ghana limited has donated 10 brand new Nissan pickup trucks and motor cycles worth over 1.5million Ghana cedis to the Accra Metropolitan Assembly in a bid to help the Assembly realize its projection and the President’s vision of making Accra the cleanest city in the African Region by the year 2020.

The move which forms part of the corporate social responsibility of the company is geared toward helping reduce communicable diseases and other diseases that are contracted through excessive filth in the cities. The company believes this is only an add-up to the numerous activities it has embarked on to clean the whole country.

Speaking at a short ceremony to hand over the vehicles and other items to the Chief Executive of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), Mohammed Nii Adjei Sowah, the Managing Director of Zoomlion Ghana Ltd, Mrs. Florence Larbi said the company is committed to push the Presidential initiative to make Accra the cleanest city in Africa.

“We are privileged to be a part of the clean Ghana agenda. In this year’s State of the Nation Address given by our dear President Nana Akuffo-Addo, he outlined the fact that we have to resource our sub-metros so that they will deliver on their mandate to keep the city clean, and in support of that we want to stand behind our hardworking mayor to donate 10 pickups 20 motorized tricycles and other cleaning logistics to the tune of 1.5 million Ghana cedis in support of the clean Ghana agenda” Mrs. Florence Larbi said.

Mrs. Larbi expressed the hope that this donation will boost the supervision of sanitation activities in the capital. She stressed that management of Zoomlion is ever ready to provide effective private sector support to the Accra Metropolitan Assembly and the larger government in any form that will help government achieve its target and also to drive the country towards achieving the Sustainable development goal on sanitation.

On his part the Chief Executive of the AMA, Mohammed Nii Adjei Sowah was very enthusiastic about the benevolence of the Zoomlion and the company’s will to see the President’s vision of making Accra the cleanest city materialize.

The AMA boss said, “it is established that your company is a leading company in waste management in the whole of this country. The Accra Metropolitan Assembly has a long standing relationship with Zoomlion. When we started our polluter phase system, we gave out some Sub Metros to the Zoomlion company, such as the Ayawaso West Wuogon and some other areas. The President’s call that Accra should be the cleanest city by the end of his tenure, is an enormous task given to us. We are fully aware of the challenge and we are working assiduously towards achieving the president’s objective. ”

For the AMA, activities are already in place to achieve this vision, and have therefore adopted a 3point approach which includes provision of information and education, enforcement of by-laws and the provision of infrastructure and logistics to support the project. These pickups and other logistics have come in handy.These pickups as donated to will help us to enforce our by-laws in our respective sub-metros”, said Hon. Sowah.

The management of Zoomlion Ghana reiterated their commitment to help the country achieve SDG goals on sanitation and the president’s sanitation vision 2020. The company has for many years undertaken several interventions to improve sanitation in the country.

Below are pictures of the donated vehicles: