AMA questions Zoomlion fumigation contracts, demands review

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has raised serious concerns about the government’s fumigation contract with the Jospong Group of Companies, operators of Zoomlion Ghana Limited, alleging a lack of consultation and transparency.

According to the AMA, many of the contracts were signed without the involvement of key actors within the assemblies, making it difficult to verify the accuracy of reports submitted for fumigation exercises.

The AMA’s Director of Public Health, Florence Kuukyi, made these remarks during an engagement with the Parliamentary Select Committee on Sanitation and Water Resources on Monday, April 14. She called for an immediate review of the fumigation contract to ensure transparency and accountability.

“Just as the coordinating director rightly said, all these contracts are always signed at the blind side of the implementers. So most of the time, even, you are just there, and they’ll bring you a report. We’ve done this. We’ve done that,” she said.

“They don’t involve you in whatever they do. They only bring you a report to sign as a witness. You can decide to sign.”

She continued, “You can decide not to sign. But whatever it is, they will be paid. So that is why we are hammering much on the review and the repackaging of the SIP contract so that we, the implementers, actors, will also have a say in it.

“Whatever they are doing, our faces are following them. If they are doing it right, we will know. If they are not doing it right, we will know. It is there. But I have never witnessed one fumigation. That is the issue. But always they bring reports of fumigation that they’ve done.”