Scores of Residents at Community Two Mangoase in the Tema West Municipality on Tuesday 3 July 2023 have expressed worry over the deplorable state of the sewage system making their living conditions unbearable.
The residents complained that the sewage system has created environmental unfriendliness.
Mr. Emmanuel Silas Davis a resident who spoke to Ohene Kinnah on EBAANOSEN, Plan B FM’s late afternoon show described the sewage problem as a health time bomb as the rains set, there are a lot of leakages on the lines, which drips into the main drains and gutters associated with pungent smell.
According to the residents, the problem started years ago, now some gutters are choked with lavatory, the situation is getting worse daily and there is a need to call out for assistance.
Mr. Emmanuel Silas Davis told the host “It had been a year since we encountered this problem, it started from the Comville Hotel area through to John Bosco School down in between some houses and pathways now we can’t stand it”.
He said, his household now lives with the pungent smell daily as a sewage line passed through his house connecting to the main sewage, which is leaking, “you can imagine our state of affairs?
“We reported it to the Assemblyman in the early stage, and he came with the waste management team and attended to the problem, but when they went back to their office the worst happened we reported, as usual, and we are still waiting for their action,” he said.
According to the residents, the Assemblyman told them that, “this time around the situation could not be solved immediately as it was a major problem, so the assembly would be contacted, but till date, nothing has been done, and we are suffering”.
He said they are ready to foot the bill for the repairs; “all we are asking the authorities is for an estimate and we would repair the damaged sewages by ourselves as we have been doing since time immemorial”.
Meanwhile, the Sewage Director of Tema West Municipal Assembly, assures the residents of fixing it.
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