Jospong Group

Category: Sewage

  • Hungarian President visits Kumasi Wastewater Treatment Plant and signs MoU

    As part of his State visit to Ghana, the President of Hungary, H.E. János Áder on Saturday, January 15, 2022, toured the Kumasi Wastewater Treatment Plant (KWTP) at Adagya in the Ashanti Region.

    President Áder was in the company of his wife, the First Lady of Hungary, Her Excellency Anita Herzcheq.

    The Hungarian President and his delegation who also included the Hungarian Ambassador to Ghana, Tamas Endre Feher, and the Managing Director (MD) of Pureco Kft, Mr Balint, were conducted around the facility by Dr Siaw Agyepong, together with the Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Mrs Cecilia Abena Dapaah, and the Ashanti Regional Minister, Mr Simon Osei Mensah.

    The 1,000 cubic per day KWTP, a collaboration between Pureco Kft, a Hungarian private sector wastewater technology leader, and JGC, was commissioned in 2021.

    The plant has the capacity to serve over two (2) million people in the Greater Kumasi Metropolitan Area in the Ashanti Region.

    It equally has the capacity to receive and treat 150 cesspit tanks of liquid waste trucks on a daily basis.

    Significantly, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between JGC and Pureco Kft, as part of plans to replicate the wastewater treatment facility across the country.

    The Executive Chairman of JGC, Dr Siaw Agyepong, signed for his group, while the MD of Pureco Kft, Mr Balint, signed for his company, which was witnessed by Mrs Dapaah and Hungary’s Ambassador to Ghana.

    In his welcome address, Dr Siaw Agyepong described the Hungarian President’s visit to the plant as historic.

    “Today marks a great milestone in Ghana-Hungary relationship as the Jospong Group of Companies has an opportunity, to welcome, His Excellency the President of Hungary, Mr. János Áder, who is on a State visit to Ghana, accompanied by his wife and an official delegation to the Kumasi Waste Water Treatment Plant”, he gladly expressed.

    According to him, the strengthened business relationship between Ghana and Hungary has brought loads of benefits to the private sector of both countries, “especially after the visit to Ghana in 2017 by the Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister of Hungary, Mr. Péter Szijjártó.”

    “The Jospong Group of Companies took advantage of the new investment opportunity, opened between Ghana and Hungary, after Mr. Péter Szijjártó’s visit, to initiate a number of private sector business consultations with Hungarian Private Sector companies. In the course of our deliberations, we established key partnerships with Pureco Kft, ANY Security Printing Plc and the Hungarian Exim Bank”, he indicated.

    That, he added, was with the view of creating business opportunities that will help improve the lives of Ghanaians.

    “Mr. President, the outcome of one such technical consultation was the conclusion of a Memorandum of Understanding between Pureco Kft and Zoomlion Ghana Limited for the construction of the Kumasi Waste Water Treatment Plant. The plant, which Your Excellency is visiting today, was constructed by Pureco-Unit Consortium, a Hungarian private sector water and wastewater technology leader. It is the first of its kind in sub-Saharan Africa”, he said.

    Dr Siaw Agyepong gave the assurance that his outfit and its partners will ensure the remaining regions benefit from the project, adding that JGC has already commenced discussions to conclude an MoU with Pureco.

    “This is to enable the remaining 13 regions of Ghana, which have no access to waste water treatment plants, also to benefit from similar projects under Pureco-Jospong collaboration”, he stressed.

    While heaping praise on the Akufo-Addo government for creating an enabling environment for players in the waste management space, Dr Siaw Agyepong commended President Áder for deepening Hungary’s relationship with Ghana.

    “Your Excellency President János Áder, permit me to seize this opportunity to also thank you personally and your Hungarian Government for making available to the Jospong Group of Companies a Hungarian Government Exim facility to construct the plants”, he said.

    Earlier, the President of Hungary paid a courtesy call on Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, at his Manhyia .

  • Accra Sewerage Systems to expand its operations

    The Accra Sewerages Systems Ghana Ltd is set to expand and upgrade its liquid waste treatment plant and technologies to treat more liquid waste within Accra and its environs. The expansion project which is going to be undertaken by EMO, an environmental technology company based in France will help increase the capacity of the plant to treat its current capacity of 2000 to 3500 cubic meters of liquid waste per day. An additional technology which will be added will help sieve out other solid waste which are normally found in the liquid waste that are brought to the facility. At a brief ceremony to sign the agreements to begin works on the expansion, The Executive Chairman of the Jospong Group of Companies, Dr. Joseph Siaw Agyepong tasked the contractor to build and install a robust technology as promised to help solve the unique composition of Ghana’s liquid waste.

    He said issues of Sanitation is a priority in Ghana hence the need to frequently expand and upgrade technologies to meet the increasing disposal of liquid waste in Accra. Dr. Agyepong indicated that work on the Kumasi Liquid waste treatment plant is almost complete and will soon serve the liquid waste treatment needs of the people within the Ashanti region. He revealed that similar works in Western, Tema and Tamale regions have begun and the capacities to be built will help receive all manner of liquid waste and prevent indiscriminate dumping of wastewater which is a health hazard. He tasked the contractor to roll out a local content capacity building where staff will be train in the design and maintenance of the technology to help transfer knowledge to Ghanaians who will be managing the new plant.

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    The Chief Executive Officer of EMO, Phillippe Hardouin who co- signed the agreement stated that such a partnership with the Jospong group is the first of its kind that a French technology will be used in Ghana to treat liquid waste. He emphasized that the plant to be built is robust and specially designed by top notch engineers to help solve the problem of solid waste mixed together with the liquid waste and the increased generation of waste water. He said the Executive Chairman’s request to train local staff has been considered and will help to properly maintain the plant when installed.

    Mr. Hardouin said the technology to be used has never existed anywhere in the world and its uniqueness will bring more investment opportunities in the country.

    The Managing Director of Sewerages Systems Ghana Limited, Ing. (Mrs) Florence Cobbold who signed on behalf of the Jospong group said the new plant will expand the company’s operations to receive over 350 cesspit trucks per day which is a huge leap from the previous capacity of 200 trucks per day. She said the expansion is to contain all liquid waste brought to the facility and prevent instances where people will begin to dump at unauthorized places which is due to long queues at the plant.

    Mrs Cobbold indicated the new plant will be able to sieve out other components of the waste that are brought to the facility such as used condoms, sanitary pads, diapers among other Solids. She was optimistic that the new project will bring alot of relief to the current handlers of the plant as the automation of the new plant will bring excitement among staff and increase productivity. Sewerages Systems Ghana Limited is the game changer in Ghana’s fight against improper disposal of liquid waste and helped solve Ghana’s 100 year problem of dumping liquid waste into the sea.

    Since the establishment of the plant in 2012, it has built similar plant in Adjen Kotoku, James Town, Kumasi and other communities in Ghana. The plant was featured on CNN’s innovative cities as a project which is helping turn human waste into green energy.