Zoomlion takes effective waste management to Benin
Zoomlion Ghana Limited, Ghana’s major waste management company, was the toast of the participants consisting of waste managers, non-governmental organisations (NGO) and student among other who trooped to the Idriss Deby Itno auditorium of the Universite D’Abomey –Calavi (premier University of the Republic of Benin), to learn about waste management.
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Miss Susana Opoku Mintah, an International Relations Officer of Zoomlion, who delivered a lecture entitled “The Zoomlion Success story- Driving impactful waste management in Ghana and beyond” impressed the audience with the ‘360 degrees” waste management approach and job creation opportunities being provided by Zoomlion in tackling and managing waste effectively in the countries in which it operates.
The seminar was part of activities outlined for the eight-day “International Fair on Hygiene and Sanitation” which was organised by the government of Benin and attended by companies in the waste management sector, investors and other related areas.
A five-member delegation from Zoomlion and Waste Landfill Ghana Limited, which are subsidiaries of the Jospong Group of Companies were among participants, in the fair.
Ghanaian example
The Zoomlion delegation planting a tree
Pointing out the Ghanaian example, she listed the public private partnership (PPP) and the integrated waste management approach as key interventions that had worked perfectly to revolutionise waste management in Ghana.
She explained that the PPP approach had provided over 200,000 jobs for the teeming youth in Ghana as they were engaged in street sweeping, drain desilting and communal waste management among other services to ensure that public places were kept clean always.
“We also built subsidiary companies along the waste management chain from collection, haulage, composting, recycling and engineered landfill management,” she added.
The Head of the Geography Department of the University, Professor Euloge Ogouwale, who facilitated the seminar, expressed his total amazement about the innovations being deployed by Zoomlion, an African company to manage waste.
He made a passionate appeal to the President of Benin to consider a possible partnership with Zoomlion to help provide jobs for the youth of Benin and help clean their communities.
Zoomlion in five African countries
The Communications Officer of Zoomlion and a member of the Zoomlion delegation to Benin, Mr James Deku, explained in an interview that Zoomlion currently operated in five African countries namely Togo, Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Zambia and Liberia, and was positioned to continue to strengthen and expand its foreign operations.
He said Zoomlion Ghana Limited as a leading waste management company in Africa, was ready to share its rich experience and expertise with the people of Benin to help tackle waste through the introduction and utilisation of its simple but modern technologies and methods of waste management at affordable and competitive rates.
A Manager at Zoomlion and the leader of the delegation, Mr Benjamin Adeleke, expressed his excitement at the acceptance and interest in Zoomlion’s operations which he said could be replicated in Benin in the company’s quest to make communities in Africa clean, green and healthy.
The delegation also joined the people of Benin to participate in their annual “Tree Planting Day” which is commemorated on June 1 every year.