Zoomlion has become a household name among the growing Ghanaian public that there is hardly a community in this country without the slightest inkling of that name.
The reason stems from the fact that the company has immensely contributed to the management of solid wastes across major towns and cities in this country.
They act with a sense of urgency and are always at the beck and call of communities. They further act with dispatch to ensure that many of our principal streets in the ten regional capitals are every morning clean. And this is what happens in the advanced countries.
Just last week Friday, 18th September, 2009 in Esiama, a town in the Nzema Township of the Western Region, Zoil Ghana Limited—a subsidiary company of Zoomlion—launched a project dubbed Eco-Brigade. Eco-Brigade is project which has the same features like the Workers Brigade established by the late Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first President.
Mr Opoku Manu, the Manager of Zoil Ghana Ltd., expressed the hope that the birth of Eco-Brigade signifies…. “the protection of the coastal heritage of Ghana.” He promised that his outfit would ensure that our beaches are kept clean, and also help restore the coconut and other coastal vegetation and avert any possible oil spillage from our emerging oil industry.
Eco-Brigade is a laudable initiative and once again Zoomlion deserves a pat on its shoulders, particularly when the project is aimed at protecting our beaches from further desecration and wanton destruction. Instead of harnessing the potential of the beaches, most coastal dwellers have turned our beaches into dumping sites. Some, to a large extent, have cultivated the habit of defecating frequently at the beaches.
It is good news that the project will seek to employ ten thousand (10,000) people in the coastal areas of the Greater Accra, Western, Volta and Central Regions. Workers of Eco-Brigade will not only be trained to clean and monitor our beaches but also ensure that we have clean beaches to attract both domestic and foreign tourists.
TODAY welcomes Zoomlion’s initiative to keep our beaches clean and safe. We hope that Eco-Brigade has come to stay and will execute its functions diligently. Of course, we have no reason to doubt the capabilities of Zoomlion looking at its track record since its inception.
Furthermore, we on the paper are calling on the coastal communities to lend their support to the project to make it a success—more especially when it will be offering jobs for thousands of Ghanaians. To Zoomlion Ghana Limited, we say kudos and more grease to your elbows, ‘Ayeekoo.’
