Kumasi, Sept 11, GNA- The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) on Thursday took delivery of 20 out of 30 refuse containers provided by the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development as part of the HIPC benefit.

The containers, which cost 750 million cedis are being designed for the KMA by the Regional Technology Transfer Centres of GRATIS in Sunyani and Asante-Mampong.

Receiving the containers, Mr Maxwell Kofi Jumah, the Kumasi Metropolitan Chief Executive, said the best thing that ever happened to the country was joining HIPC.

He said conditions for the country to join the HIPC Initiative were evident even before the NPP took over the reigns of government but that the NDC did not have the political courage to do so.

Mr Jumah noted that the country spent about 70 percent of its revenue to pay salaries of workers and service foreign loans from the remaining 30 percent and said if, therefore, the country should continue to pay the interest on the loans it meant that there will be no money left for development.

He said, the wisest thing to do was to join the HIPC and save the money for the payment of the interest for development.

Mr Jumah said the biggest problem in Kumasi and all the major cities and urban centres in the country was sanitation and that most of the preventable diseases including malaria as a result of poor sanitation.