President commissions phase 2 of Accra Compost and Recycling Plant
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has commissioned the second phase of the Accra Compost and Recycling Plant (ACARP) at Adjen Kotoku in the Ga West Municipal District of the Greater Accra Region.
The project is the second of a three-phased composting and recycling plant being executed by the Jospong Group and Partners.
At the commissioning ceremony on Thursday October 21, 2021, President Akufo-Addo noted that increased urbanisation, particularly in the country’s major cities, necessitated a new approach to waste management.
The President noted that the establishment of an efficient integrated waste management facility required huge financial outlay, and, with the competing needs of other sectors of the economy on government budget, it is becoming increasingly difficult for Government alone to shoulder that responsibility.
It was for the reason that Jospong Group and Partners, with support from Government, embarked on expanding the existing facility from 600 tonnes per day to 2,000 tonnes per day to cope with the increased municipal solid waste generated daily within Accra.It will provide sustainable material and energy recovery solutions to the high or increasing levels of recyclables in our Municipal Solid Waste. The Plant which started with a workforce of 150 will be adding an additional 200 more. Currently, the Jospong Group employs over 6,000 core staff and 45,000 operatives totalling a workforce of 51,000 people.
President Akufo-Addo said the completion of the facility would enable the effective and efficient management of the increasing solid waste in a more environmentally-friendly and sustainable manner.
With the huge capital requirement needed to establish infrastructure for the management of solid waste, the President applauded the Jospong Group and partners for assisting the government to address the situation.
He gave the assurance that the Government would continue to create the enabling environment for the private sector to thrive, and would collaborate with the private sector in the provision of infrastructure to accelerate the socio-economic development of the country.President Akufo-Addo said that government was collaborating with Jospong Group of Companies and Partners to implement the Integrated Recycling and Compost Plants in all the 16 regions of the country, to help address the prevailing national sanitation challenges.
Your Excellency, your actions have inspired us in the private sector to innovate and engineer strategic solutions to our collective developmental challenges. You are a true leader.
Indeed, you have spared no effort at developing the private sector by supporting many companies and the Jospong Group is one of the beneficiaries. Other companies have also benefitted, and we can all attest to this. This demonstrates that at the core of your leadership philosophy is the growth and development of entrepreneurship,” he said.
The President had earlier inspected the Agbogbloshie Reclaimed Land Site, visited the Adjen Kotoku onion market.