The Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Environment Science, Technology and Innovation, Simon Edem Asimah has abhorred the traditional system of feacal waste disposal into the sea at Korle Gonno, also known as “Lavender Hill”. “The traditional system is appalling and we are pleased that the construction of mudor feacal treatment plant which will eliminate the traditional method of dumping feacal waste into the Atlantic Ocean, would be completed within a period of one year,” Mr. Asimah stressed while on a tour of some waste management facilities in Accra. The tour was to familiarize members on the committee with some of the sanitation projects that have been undertaken within the Greater Accra Region and to see how far these projects have served Ghanaians. Asimah noted that the Mudor Feacal treatment plant is a good and laudable project and deserves the support of all in overcoming the challenges inhibiting its progress including the alarming number of squatters in the area. The Accra Metropolitan Assembly in collaboration with Sewage Systems Ghana Limited through a public private partnership has put up a system in the feacal sludge which is dislodged into a holding tank and then with the use of polymer the sewage is de-watered. Sewage Systems Ghana Limited would put up a feacal treatment plant of 2000m3/d which would treat and dry feacal sludge and discharge the effluent into the sea. According to the project manager of Sewage Systems Ghana Limited Mr. Daniel Kabe the project would help build an efficient and technologically tested feacal and sewerage treatment plant to serve the whole of central Accra. This is contrary to recent reports that the AMA was to completely shut down the Lavender Hill this month. Mr. Daniel Kabe added that the project had been delayed because of the existence of squatters around the project site making it difficult to commission the project. “We are ready to start working. The contractors are already in the country and everything is set but our main problem is the squatters around the site. They are delaying the work,” he said. He was not certain the amount involved in the project but was firm to say that the project when started would be completed within a year. Leading the committee members on a tour at the ACARP, a subsidiary of the Zoomlion Group, the Managing Director, Engineer Owura K. Sarfo, said some of the challenges currently faced by the company was the delay in the payment of management fees. This, he said, posed a threat to working capital and loan payments, which were critical to business.