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Make Accra Work: Zoomlion Donates Buses As Monthly Disinfection Of KIA Reduces COVID

<p><em>Make Accra Work gets boost<&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a> <&sol;strong>reports that Waste management expert&comma; Zoomlion Ghana Limited &lpar;ZGL&rpar;&comma; has donated two brand new Toyota Hiace buses to the Greater Accra &lpar;G&sol;A&rpar; Regional Co-ordinating Council in support of the &&num;8216&semi;Let&&num;8217&semi;s Make Accra Work&&num;8217&semi; initiative&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The effort is to facilitate the movement of the personnel of the co-ordinating council in keeping the national capital clean which is a component of the &&num;8216&semi;Let&&num;8217&semi;s Make Accra Work&&num;8217&semi; project&comma; and which fits into the overall President&&num;8217&semi;s vision of making Ghana the cleanest country in Africa&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The presentation was done at the regional co-coordinating council in Accra on Wednesday&comma; April 21&comma; 2021&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Handing over the two 13-seater buses embossed with logos of &&num;8216&semi;Let&&num;8217&semi;s Make Accra Work&comma;&&num;8217&semi; the Managing Director &lpar;MD&rpar; of ZGL&comma; Mrs Gloria Anti&comma; said the donation was a demonstration of Zoomlion&&num;8217&semi;s commitment to a clean&comma; green and healthy environment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;The &&num;8216&semi;Let&&num;8217&semi;s Make Accra Work&&num;8217&semi; initiative is laudable&comma; and we believe with supports like this&comma; Accra will eventually become the cleanest city in Africa&comma;&&num;8221&semi; she said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Receiving the buses&comma; the Greater Accra Regional Minister&comma; Mr Henry Quartey&comma; thanked Zoomlion for the kind gesture&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He assured that the buses would be used to pursue the &&num;8216&semi;Let&&num;8217&semi;s Make Accra Work&&num;8217&semi; agenda&comma; describing the event as very &&num;8216&semi;historic&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I say so because as part of my vision for the ministry&comma; I engaged the Executive Chairman of Jospong Group of Companies&comma; Dr Siaw Agyepong&comma; on how we can tackle sanitation in the region&period; I also appealed to him for buses to ease our movement on the field&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Following that appeal&comma; Mr Quartey said though Dr Siaw Agyepong assured of delivering within a week&comma; he fulfilled that promise much earlier &lpar;within a space of two days&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The regional minister&comma; therefore&comma; seized the chance to encourage other companies to follow the example of Zoomlion by donating towards the &&num;8216&semi;Let&&num;8217&semi;s Make Accra Work&&num;8217&semi; initiative&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He equally commended Converge&comma; an advertising company&comma; which helped designed the logo of the project&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We will also require the media to partner us in this exercise by helping to educate and sensitise the public on making Accra clean&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he urged&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In like manner&comma; the monthly disinfection of Kotoka International Airport &lpar;KIA&rpar; has helped to reduce the spread of Covid-19 across the country&comma; the Business Development Manager of Vector Control Unit of Zoomlion Ghana Limited &lpar;ZGL&rpar;&comma; Madam Akosua Konadu Yeboah&comma; has stated&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8216" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;04&sol;Kia-300x200&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Make Accra Work" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"200" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;Madam Konadu Yeboah was speaking to the media on the sidelines of her outfit’s monthly disinfection of the airport on Wednesday&comma; April 21&comma; 2021&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The two-hour exercise&comma; which was the fourth to be undertaken by<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;chicagotribune&period;com"> Zoomlion&comma;<&sol;a> this year&comma; covered Terminal 1 &lpar;otherwise known as the McDan Aviation&rpar; and Terminal 3&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to her&comma; the exercise was to augment the central government’s efforts at curbing the spread of the virus&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;and we scheduled it in a way not to cause any interruptions to operations of the airlines and businesses at the airport&comma;” she explained&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Madam Konadu Yeboah indicated that Zoomlion was unwavering in its support to the government to fight the virus&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This explains why we are doing the disinfection at the airports on a monthly and regular basis&period; It is to make sure that the airport space is always safe for users and staff members&comma;” she intimated&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The operation took care of every facility within the scope of these two terminals—offices&comma; washrooms&comma; restaurants&comma; arrival and departure halls among others&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The objective&comma; she said&comma; was to ensure that all surfaces and open spaces that have come into contact with viruses are rendered inactive to protect users of the airport&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;So we know the mode of transmission of this virus&comma; and we know that it is spread through <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;guardian&period;ng&sol;">contaminated surfaces<&sol;a>&period; So we disinfect all surfaces and spaces within the airport to ensure that any infected space&sol;surface with viruses is made inactive&comma;” Madam Konadu Yeboah stressed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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