What happened to lands reserved for sanitary sites? -WasteCare CEO calls for audit

The public health engineering expert said an audit of existing community layouts could help assemblies identify available sites, assess encroachment and determine whether occupied land could be legally recovered for waste management facilities.

Public health engineering expert and Chief Executive Officer of Waste Care Associates, Lukman Salifu Chief Executive Officer of Waste Care Associates, Lukman Salifu, has called on metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies to establish what has happened to land originally reserved for sanitary sites in their communities.

His call follows Local Government Minister Mahama Ayarigah’s directive for assemblies to provide one acre of land for waste transfer stations and identify land for landfill development.