Investigative journalist and former founding Editor-in-Chief of The Fourth Estate, Manasseh Azure Awuni has cautioned the Minister for the Greater Accra Region, Linda Ocloo, against going ahead with a deal between Zoomlion and Chairman of the Jospong Group of Companies, Joseph Siaw Agyepong, to collaborate on keeping Accra clean.
In a post on X (formerly Twitter), the Investigative journalist accused the Regional Minister of “courting corruption and not a solution” to tackling sanitation and waste management in the region.
He urged the Minister to rescind her decision on Jospong and Zoomlion , calling on Hon. Linda Ocloo to read comments shared on the Facebook post about her meeting with Siaw Agyepong.
“Linda Ocloo, if you have some modicum of conscience—and I suppose you do—you would rescind your decision on Jospong and Zoomlion by just reading the comments people shared on the Facebook post about your meeting with Siaw Agyepong. From those comments, even the BuzStopBoys who don’t have any contract with the government, are doing better than Zoomlion” he wrote.
Suggesting a different approach to tackling the menace, Manseeh Azure wrote: “If you want to see Accra clean, allow the assemblies to control the people who clean their markets and streets. Their money is used to pay the cleaners, so they should have control. The assemblies’ sanitation and waste management departments are better equipped with personnel than Zoomlion’s district offices. What they lack is their funds, which the government gives to Zoomlion.”
LINDA OCLOO IS COURTING CORRUPTION, NOT SOLUTION
************************************************************Dear Linda Ocloo,
The Minority Leader of Parliament, Alexander Afenyo Markin, is widely quoted in media reports as saying that the Appointments Committee of Parliament… pic.twitter.com/Ssn5NXI0a5
— Manasseh Azure Awuni (@Manasseh_Azure) February 5, 2025
