KVIPs in Kumasi to be converted into biogas facilities
Kumasi Ventilated Improved Pit (KVIP) toilets in the Kumasi Metropolis are being converted into biogas facilities to make them environmentally friendly.
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The move, which is a collaboration between the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) and the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA), would also ensure that all new public toilets to be constructed in the municipality would be biogas facilities.
The acting Ashanti Regional Director of the EPA, Mr Samuel Oteng, disclosed this when he represented the Kumasi Mayor, Mr Osei Assibey Antwi, at the Green Road Show programme for entrepreneurs in Kumasi.
It was organised by the Ghana Climate Innovation Centre (GCIC).
The GCIC Green Road Show programme, which is a World Bank-funded project, is aimed at educating entrepreneurs on how they can start ventures and access the GCIC green incubation project fund to support and develop their innovations into strong viable businesses.
Curtailing nuisance
Mr Oteng said the initiative would stop the environmental nuisance KVIPs created and its attendant health hazard to humans.
“The whole move is to make the facilities environmentally friendly and prevent them from being a health hazard to the people living around the facilities,” Mr Oteng said.
According to the regional director, the assembly was encouraging entrepreneurs to make use of the bio-digester in their facilities so that the policy of attaining no waste system in the metropolis would be achieved.
Mr Oteng said the private sector played a vital role in the climate change programme and, therefore, appealed to the centre to adequately support the sector in order for the climate change agenda to be achieved.
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GCIC
The Executive Director of GCIC, Madam Ruka Sanusi, said the centre had started a five-week green road show nationwide to inform and educate entrepreneurs on how they could apply for the GCIC incubation project for their businesses and receive maximum support to nurture their young business innovations.
She mentioned that the centre was working in five key areas, which included, energy efficiency, water management and purification, domestic waste management and solar energy.
Madam Sanusi said the centre was expected to assist about 100 businesses within a period of four years from the incubation period to become viable business ventures.
Beneficiary
A beneficiary of the GCIC programme, Mr Richard Asamoah Boateng, who is in the solar energy sector, explained to the entrepreneurs how GCIC supported and intervened in his solar energy business and made it a viable venture.
He appealed to entrepreneurs in the region to apply to the centre for support, and allow the centre to nurture their small businesses and innovations into viable ventures.
