Residents of Essipong, a suburb of Sekondi, are angry with officials of the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis, for continuously dumping liquid waste directly into the sea in the area. They said the practice, which has existed for nearly seventy years, has serious health implications on the fisher folks of Ngyiresia, whose boundary with Essipong has been the dumping ground of untreated human excreta generated in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis. A driver of a truck belonging to the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority, who was spotted dumping the waste, told Maxx News he does that many times in a day. “When the toilets at the Port are full, we have several places where we collect them and discharge over here. Even now, we are going to the Fishing Harbour and three other places before we close. This is where the whole Sekondi-Takoradi dumps its liquid waste. They say they are opening a new site at Sofokrom which is not ready,” he said. The waste discolours the seawater around the dumping site, and along the coast where the people of Ngyiresia have been carrying out their activities. According to the fisher folks, several complaints to the STMA have yielded no results. The pungent smell in the area is unbearable, but residents have had to bear this for many years. “I have been here for more than a year and the way they dump the thing here is very bad. We are suffering a lot because sometimes they come ten times in a day” a security guard at a Quarry site close to the area lamented. Passersby and motorists, who use the road on daily basis, have to cover their noses or hold their breath. The Chief of Essipong, Nana Kofi Abuna the fifth, told Maxx News the dumping has been done for seventy years. He said she has made several attempts to get authorities to address the situation but to no avail. He disclosed that he recently threatened to lead a peaceful demonstration against the Assembly, but had to call it off because of some assurances made by the MCE to solve the problem. Meanwhile, the Head of Waste Management at the STMA, Glory Agordzo, has told Maxx News that a stabilization pond for the treatment of human excreta into fertilizer at the Sofokrom Landfill site near Sekondi is almost complete and will be handed over to the Assembly anytime soon. This is a World Bank project that started many years ago but the authorities are convinced that by the end of September this year, those dumping sites will not be used any longer.