In a major boost to the government’s National Sanitation Day initiative, Zoomlion Ghana Limited has pledged substantial logistical and equipment support to sustain the nationwide exercise.
Speaking to the press during the clean-up on Saturday, October 4, 2025, the Director of Monitoring and Service Quality at Zoomlion Ghana Limited, Ernest Kusi, confirmed the company’s full backing for all municipal assemblies across the sixteen regions.
Saturday’s exercise, led by the Ga Mantse, King Tackie Teiko Tsuru II, and the Minister for Local Government, Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Ibrahim Ahmed, received strong support from Zoomlion. The clean-up began at the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) headquarters and extended through the Central Business District (CBD), Kwame Nkrumah Circle, and Agbogbloshie Market, among other areas.
The exercise involved sweeping roadsides, clearing drains, and removing weeds from road medians.
Mr Kusi explained that Zoomlion’s support includes dedicated sanitation workers, compaction trucks, gloves, nose masks, and other waste management gear.
“Zoomlion is committed to supporting all Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) nationwide to ensure that the National Sanitation Day is not just a one-day event, but continues to advance the President’s Clean Ghana Agenda,” he affirmed.
“As a leader in sanitation, Zoomlion cannot sit idle; we must participate. So this morning, together with the Assembly, we are actively taking part. Our workers are sweeping, desilting drains, and weeding in designated areas assigned by the Assembly,” he added.
He revealed that the company has supplied logistics such as brooms, nose masks, gloves, compaction trucks, and skip trucks across municipalities and districts nationwide.
Beyond logistics, Mr Kusi said Zoomlion was also investing in public education, emphasizing that behavioural change was essential to the success of the initiative.
“We believe sanitation is about lifestyle change. Through our Zoom Kids Programme, we educate schoolchildren to adopt good sanitation habits from an early age so they grow up valuing cleanliness,” he stated.
He also called on assemblies to enforce sanitation bylaws and punish those who litter, saying, “Together with education and enforcement, we believe we can achieve lasting change.”
Mr Kusi reminded citizens that sanitation is a shared responsibility and urged everyone to keep their surroundings clean, desilt drains, and properly dispose of waste.
“Every first Saturday of the month is National Sanitation Day, and I expect all citizens to participate,” he charged.
He further encouraged households to acquire waste bins for proper waste storage, noting that Zoomlion provides them at a subsidised cost.
“Indiscriminate littering harms us all and pollutes our environment. Let’s change our habits so we can all enjoy the clean Ghana we desire,” he urged.
Earlier, at the forecourt of the AMA head office in Tudu, Accra, the Minister for Local Government, Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Ibrahim Ahmed, urged Ghanaians to see the exercise not just as a physical activity but as a mental and attitudinal one.
“Beyond the sweeping and cleaning, we must work on resetting our mindset and changing our behavioural attitudes,” he said, while appealing to the media to support the government’s sanitation agenda by promoting positive attitudes toward cleanliness.
The National Sanitation Day was reintroduced by President John Dramani Mahama on September 6, 2025, at the Institute of Local Government Studies (ILGS), Ogbojo–Madina, to unite Ghanaians in maintaining a clean and healthy environment.
Source: AdomOnline