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Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema highlighted the significance of waste management and expressed his commitment to such initiatives back at home. President Hichilema made this statement while visiting Ghana’s leading waste management company where he was taken on a conducted tour to understand the model which they are using to turn waste into cash. The President is on a three-day visit to Ghana.
Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema highlighted the significance of waste management and expressed his commitment to such initiatives back at home. President Hichilema made this statement while visiting Ghana’s leading waste management company where he was taken on a conducted tour to understand the model which they are using to turn waste into cash. The President is on a three-day visit to Ghana. President Hichilema was speaking in reference to a waste management company, the Jospong Group of Companies (JGC) operating in Ghana that also has its presence in Zambia but has had difficulties in implementing its vision in the previous governments.
The Zambia President, Hakainde Hichilema assured the Executive Chairman of the Jospong Group of Companies (JGC) of his readiness to unlock all rigidities in Zambia to allow Jospong to transform the waste and technology sectors of his country. He assured the company that, he would immediately set up a committee at the Zambia Presidency to coordinate with the Jospong team to start work as a matter of urgency. He stated that the model can also work well in Zambia as almost 1.3 tonnes of waste is generated in a short period of time in Lusaka alone.
The Zambian President noted that leaders of Africa have shifted focus from talking politics to how to create opportunities for the African people and that is the new paradigm. Now it is the responsibility of the leadership to build African businesses that will give jobs to African people.
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The Executive Chairman of JGC, Dr Joseph Siaw Agyepong said that the nature of African waste constituted 61 percent of organic waste, which must be turned into fertilizer. The rest are plastics 14 per cent, leather, glass three percent, textiles two per cent, and e-waste five percent, among others is exactly what Jospong is doing in Africa. He assured the Zambian President and his entourage of his immediate action in that regard where several waste recycling plants and mechanisms would be put in place to rid their cities of waste.
