FANMILK Limited has, within the last six months, invested $1 million to improve its infrastructure in Tamale to serve the three northern regions.
It intends to invest an additional $500,000 to turn its depot in Tamale into a modern storage and distribution retail centre in the northern sector.
The Sales and Marketing Manager of Fanmilk, Mr Kwasi Attuah, said this after presenting a number of litter bins to the Tamale Metropolitan Assembly in Tamale on Monday.
The donation was in response to an earlier appeal by the assembly to companies in the area to donate towards keeping the city clean in connection with President Atta Mills’s call to rid the cities of filth.
Mr Attuah said the gesture was part of the company’s social responsibility to help address the sanitation needs of cities and towns in the country.
“Fanmilk has, over the past 15 years, also assisted a non-governmental organisation (NGO) to embark on clean-up exercises in various parts of the country,” he said.
According to him, the company had earlier presented similar bins to the University for Development Studies Medical School in Tamale, adding that its next stop would be the Yendi municipality.
He announced that 24 schools in the Tamale metropolis would soon benefit from the company’s sensitisation programme under which a film on the proper disposal of waste would be shown to the beneficiary schools.
The MCE of Tamale, who received the items, expressed appreciation to the benefactors and appealed to other companies and organisations to also extend support to the assembly in its sanitation and development drive.
He said the fast-growing metropolis had become cosmopolitan, was generating more waste and grappling with additional development challenges that needed the intervention of both the government and other stakeholders to address.
He noted that contrary to the negative perception some people had of the metropolis, Tamale was the hub of the proverbial Ghanaian hospitality, with a multiplicity of valued cultures and traditions.
He, therefore, urged potential investors and visitors alike not to hesitate in relocating to the city to enjoy its warmth and the business opportunities that it offered.
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