Author's note: This was written on the 4th of February 2013. It is being posted today because I was unable to do so on the day.
Dear Dr. Adjapong,
I shall go straight to the point. It is said that to whom much is given, much is expected of.
Ghana is slowly being engulfed by filth - despite the valiant efforts of
waste management companies such as your Jospong Group subsidiary
Zoomlion.
It is obvious to most discerning Ghanaians that sending waste to landfill sites is storing up trouble for tomorrow.
The recent public outcry against the dumping of waste at the Achimota landfill site is a case in point.
Waste-to-energy represents a sustainable future for waste disposal in Ghana.
As you are aware, the Environment Centre of Lancaster University in
collaboration with the UK consultancy firm Envirofly, are organising a
waste-to-energy Executive Master Class at GIMPA towards the end of
March (28th-30th).
Why does the Jospong Group not sponsor officials from all the
Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDA) in Ghana, to
attend this all-important waste-to-energy course at GIMPA?
That will be a perfect corporate social responsibility gesture from
the Jospong Group - and could even lead eventually to waste-to-energy
PPP deals between Zoomlion and the MMDA's, which will make Zoomlion an
independent power producer too.
Finally, why do you not set an example to the rest of the Ghanaian
corporate world, by floating shares in the Jospong Group on the Ghana
Stock Exchange (GSE)?
Apart from raising millions of Ghana cedis in interest-free capital
for the Jospong Group, it will also generate much excitement in Ghana
and spark public interest in the GSE - and create a whole new class of
small-investors in shares in listed companies in Ghana.
Surely, that will be a fitting pioneering role, for a creative and dynamic
tycoon, with interests in many sectors of our nation's economy?
Thanks.
Yours in the service of Mother Ghana,
Kofi.
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