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Garbage Engulfs Ho Lorry Station

February 7, 2017
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Reports reaching Today from the Ho Central lorry station indicate that drivers at the station are angry at the Ho Municipal Assembly (HMA).

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The anger of the drivers, Today learnt, stemmed from the reason that the HMA was doing little or nothing to adequately handle the mounds of garbage piling up at the station, despite the fact that they pay a parking fee of GHC2.00 daily.

The drivers wondered what their daily fees were being used for.

Consequently, the drivers gave the HMA by close of yesterday to clear the garbage from the station or else they will stop paying the daily parking fee of GHC2.00.

According to them, they were made to understand that part of the GHC2.00 collected daily goes to HMA to be used to keep the station clean.

“Unfortunately, that is not the case on the ground.  Look at the heaps of garbage at the station and the high health risk they pose to drivers and patrons of this station,” a commercial driver, who spoke to Today on condition of anonymity, fumed.

As a result, the accumulated filth has reduced the station to a garbage dump, thus exposing them to communicable diseases.

Apparently, the drivers were not the only people who were complaining about the situation.

Traders and food vendors, who sell at the station, Today understands, were also being affected by the development.

The food vendors in particular were worried about the continuous low patronage of their foods.

A visit to the lorry station yesterday morning at about 7:00 a.m., revealed a disgusting experience, with mounds of garbage piling up at the place, leaving slush and stink.

The three refuse containers at the station, Today observed, were full to the brim, with some of the solid wastes spilling over onto the ground.

Stray dogs and cats feasting on the heaps of garbage, the drivers intimated, was a common sight at the station.

Additionally, the drivers lamented that flies and mosquitoes also swarm over the garbage which pose health risk to especially passengers and commuters who patronise the station.  They also expressed concern over the low patronage by commuters of the station.  This, they attributed, to the unsanitary conditions at the station.

On top off all these nuisances, both the drivers and traders complained bitterly about the pungent stench that emanates from the garbage.

The paper also learnt the drivers and traders at the station were not the only ones bearing the brunt of the very unpleasant stench, but also residents living around the area.

Story by Edem Vuvor with additional files by Kwamena Ananse

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