Zoomlion donates Bins to Tema Manhean (DAILY GRAPHIC, FRI NOV 6, 09) PAGE 29

Story: Della Russel Ocloo, Tema

ZOOMLION Ghana limited, a waste management company has donated a quantity of plastic dust bins valued at GHC 1,400 to residents of Tema Manhean towards promoting safe environmental practices among residents.
Presenting the items, the Tema zonal coordinator of Zoomlion, Ms Augustina Asare indicated the donation forms parts of the company’s social responsibility programme for communities in which they operates.
She called on residents to complement Zoomlion’s efforts by keeping their surroundings clean.
She regretted that people often turned plastic bins belonging to the company into water storage facilities and cautioned residents against such practices.
She challenged members of the Tema Youth Association (TYA) who requested for the bins on behalf of the community to put monitoring mechanisms in place to ensure the dust bins are used for the intended purpose.
The Tema Mantse, Nii Adjei Krakue II who received the items on behalf of the community commended members of the TYA for their initiative in acquiring the bins for the community.
He urged them to live in unity as they strove to bring development to Manhean and its surrounding communities whose residents live in abject poverty.
Nii Krakue advised the youth to desist from interfering in chieftaincy matters particularly chieftaincy disputes, a practice he said retards development. ‘Do not allow yourselves to be used to fan disputes by aggrieved persons whose interest lies in retarding development of our community’, Nii emphasised.
He noted the socio-economic legacies left by the nation’s first President; Dr Kwame Nkrumah has been left to deteriorate over the years while successive governments begged develop countries for aid to embark on developmental projects.
In a related development, Zoomlion has presented plastic bins worth GHC560 to the Afienya Divisional Police Command at a brief ceremony at Afienya in the Dangme West District of the Greater Accra region.
Station Officer, Inspector Daniel Kofi Tetteh who received the items on behalf of the division express profound appreciation to the company for the gesture.
Inspector Tetteh used the opportunity to appeal to the police high command and corporate institutions to come to the aid of the division which he described as lacking the needed logistics for effective policing within the area.