By Collins Sarkodieh 
The massive frustration of seeing piles of stinking rubbish left on our roadsides after communal labor is finally getting a permanent solution. President John Dramani Mahama has officially ordered the immediate opening of six major waste transfer stations across the Greater Accra Region.
This presidential directive aims to radically speed up the collection of refuse following the recent heavy floods that hit our neighborhoods. By opening these modern facilities, the government is making it much easier for local waste collectors to dump their garbage quickly without traveling long distances out of town.
The biggest win under this new arrangement goes directly to our hardworking local tricycle waste operators, popularly known as aboboyaa riders. Speaking during the second day of the National Clean-up Exercise in Alajo on Saturday, July 11, 2026, President Mahama revealed that these transfer stations were actually built over nine years ago but were sadly left abandoned.
Before this directive, the recent floods had completely filled up the local dumping sites, forcing small operators to travel all the way to distant landfills like Adepa in the Eastern Region just to empty their tricycles. Now, these riders can easily drop their garbage at nearby neighborhoods, which drastically reduces their daily fuel costs and keeps more money in their pockets.
The six newly activated transfer stations are strategically scattered around the capital city to ensure full coverage for every municipality. If you live or trade anywhere near Achimota, Teshie, Kpone, Ashaiman, Pantang, or Adipa, a designated modern drop-off point is now fully operational in your area.
Under the coordinated sanitation plan, Zoomlion Ghana Limited will use heavy-duty compaction trucks to lift the waste from these intermediate stations. The garbage will travel straight to certified state recycling plants, including the Accra Compost and Recycling Plant (ACARP), where the materials are processed scientifically instead of just piling up in ugly landfills.
President Mahama addressed a major logical flaw that has ruined many previous national cleaning campaigns across the country. He noted that people usually sweat heavily to pull black mud out of the gutters, only to leave it on the pavement where subsequent rains easily wash everything right back into the drains.
To break this annoying cycle, the president confirmed that military personnel and other state security agencies will remain on the ground beyond the weekend exercise. The armed forces will assist local assemblies until every single piece of roadside debris is entirely loaded onto haulage trucks and transported away.
The Executive Chairman of the Jospong Group, Dr. Joseph Siaw Agyepong, warmly welcomed the government’s intervention and confirmed that Zoomlion has already started operations at the sites. The local sanitation giant has significantly expanded its field capacity across all twenty-nine assemblies in Greater Accra to handle the post-flood waste emergency.
The massive recovery operation features over one hundred and fifty heavy haulage trucks, thirty compactors, mechanical road sweepers, and more than two thousand active tricycle operators working around the clock. The Minister for Local Government, Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Ahmed Ibrahim, heavily praised this public-private partnership during his facility inspection tour, urging all citizens to embrace responsible waste habits so our drainage channels can stay clear permanently.