He said it was the responsibility of everybody from the Director to the labourer level to ensure that they changed their attitudes and committment to the AMA. Mohammed Sowah made this known to the Ghana News Agency at the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area Sanitation Water Project (GAMA-SWP) capacity building workshop in Accra sponsored by the World Bank for the Waste Management Department staff of the AMA.He said “those of you who will accept the change he or she is welcome” and urged the waste management staff to work harder to raise environmental consciousness among the people in Accra.

He said Accra now needed a special comprehensive programme to give the metropolis a new look for its honoured role as host to many distinguished delegations. The MCE said the AMA would come out with a clear policy guidelines to change the face of Accra and blamed the negative attitude of the people towards sanitation and waste management, adding that ‘I will pursue aggressively the stoppage of indiscriminate dumping of refuse into drains leading to chocking that causes flooding’. Madam Bertha Darteh, Head of Capacity Building of the GAMA-SWP, told the GNA that the workshop would provide the coaching support to enhance skills of frontline staff of the Waste Management personnel to deal with their clients.

“It will also provide improved customer care and service for the clients of the Assembly in general” she said. She said building the capacity of the Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies (MMDAS) would enable them work well in various fields and support to deliver quality services