Mr Osei Assibey-Antwi, the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) Chief Executive, has indicated that the Assembly's overarching goal of making Kumasi one of the cleanest cities in Ghana, was on course.
"There are also proactive measures in place, to ensure the sustainability of this bid" he added.
He said so far about 1,000,000 different tree species and 2,000 coconut trees, which could be used for commercial purposes, have been planted in the Metropolis.
"Every other week, different voluntary groups hit the principal streets in Kumasi for clean-up exercises", he added, saying all these were in aid of achieving green and clean environment.
Mr Assibey-Antwi stated these when the Head of European Union (EU)-Delegation in Ghana, Ms. Diana Acconcia, paid a courtesy call on him in Kumasi.
He said the Assembly was also working towards controlling excessive waste generation in the Central Business District (CBD).
The CBD alone generates 750 tones out of the total 1,500 tons of waste generated daily in the Metropolis.
The KMA Boss said the due to the improvement in general environmental sanitation, disease outbreak such as cholera etc, were now a thing of the past and the Assembly was also working to protect its rivers and water bodies in the city as sprawling urbanisation, continued to pose a challenge.
In the area of vehicular and human congestion, the Assembly was leveraging on lands available to provide markets, where hawkers could sell their wares, while making plans to set up multi-storey car parks to keep at bay, the perennial problem of unapproved car parking, in the CBD.
Ms Acconcia, said the EU was working hard to augment programmes being implemented by some African states to address waste management and announced that the EU would next month organise a seminar on recycling of waste, to seek stakeholder inputs on how to curtail the growing environmental challenges in cities.