Zoomlion introduces motorised tricycles in Kumasi

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Mr Boniface A. Siddique, Minister of Manpower, Youth and Employment, trying his hands on one of the motorised tricycles at the Konadu Yiadom School Park at Ashtown in Kumasi.
This was when Zoomlion, a private waste collection company introduced the motorised tricycles to help with waste collection in the Kumasi metropolis.
The company first introduced the manual tricycles last year and has been helping greatly in waste collection in the metropolis.
The motorised tricycles, 500 of which have been introduced in Kumasi are to add to the manual ones and help with street sweeping, drain cleansing and litter picking.
Mr Stephen Asamoah Boateng, Minister of Local Government, Rural Development and Environment at a ceremony to introduce the cycles in Kumasi urged residents of Kumasi to support the sanitation efforts of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly.
He said sanitation was one of his priorities at the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Environment and that he intended to ensure that all assemblies are able to deal with the unsanitary menace engulfing most areas.
Employees under the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) are being used to operate the motorised tricycles.
Mr Boniface A. Siddique, Minister of Manpower, Youth and Employment said so far 79,000 youth had been employed under the NYEP within its shortest time of operation and said the number was expected to shoot to 400,000 by end of 2007.
He said the NYEP was devoid of politics hence people should stop trying to politicise the whole exercise.