Dr. William Samoei Ruto, the President of the Republic of Kenya, has lauded Ghana’s sanitation giants, Zoomlion Ghana Limited, which is a subsidiary of Jospong Group, for investing in high-tech facilities that are providing waste management solutions across African countries.
President Ruto was speaking during a visit to the Jospong Group’s stand at the Pavilion and Exhibition Booth after official opening of Kenya’s 2025 Devolution Conference hosted in Homa Bay County on August 13, 2025.
President Ruto’s comment was in reaction to explanation by the Executive Chairman of the Jospong Group of Companies, Dr Joseph Siaw Agyepong on how his company had tackled waste in Ghana and across Africa.
Dr Siaw Agyepong indicated to President Ruto that waste management companies under Zoomlion included Accra Compost and Recycling Plant (ACARP), Integrated Recycling and Compost Plant (IRECOP), Waste Landfills (WL), Medical Waste Services Limited (MWSL), Landfill Technologies Services, and Kumasi Compost and Recycling Plant.
He stressed that these waste management companies were offering technology-driven solutions to African waste management challenges.
Organised by the Council of Governors, the DevCon2025 brought together over 11,000 delegates, including government officials, county governors, development partners, the private sector, civil society and international stakeholders.
Among the distinguished attendees were all the 47 county governors; members of the county assemblies and the Senate, among others.
The four-day conference (August 12 – 15, 2025), themed: “For the People, For Prosperity: Devolution as a Catalyst for Equity, Inclusion and Social Justice,” examined devolution’s role in realizing equity, inclusion, and social justice in Kenya.
Later, addressing the delegates, Dr. Siaw Agyepong unveiled an ambitious plan to transform Kenya’s waste management landscape and create over 52,000 jobs annually.
According to him, this will involve a clustering operation into regional counties to facilitate effective and efficient waste management across Kenya.
“With a population of about 57 million generating approximately 28,000 tonnes of waste daily, we propose clustering operations into regional counties – so that about five counties will share one integrated waste facility.
“It may interest you to know that about 52,000 jobs can be created annually through the establishment of waste management treatment plants, like we have done in Ghana,” Dr. Siaw Agyepong stressed.
The clustering of Kenyan counties strategy revealed by the Jospong Group Executive Chairman was widely applauded at the 9th edition of the Kenya Devolution Conference 2025 (DevCon2025).
He said the clustering of the counties would further generate 30,000 jobs from waste collection, transportation and sweeping; 21,000 jobs from integrated waste management plant operations; and 1,800 jobs from green initiatives, data collection, monitoring and validation within the carbon market.
The Executive Chairman of JGC stressed the need for Kenya to harness the potential of Jospong Group’s operations in Ghana, adding that “Together, Ghana and Kenya can build and sustain efficient waste management systems within counties.”
He noted that there was no such thing as “waste”—”only misplaced resources,” adding that “Let us recover and recycle them for the benefit of our people. Today, I am confident that by 2027 Jospong will be able to present clear evidence of plants installed across all participating countries.”
Dr. Siaw Agyepong concluded his address with a 2-minute video from its leading subsidiary company, Zoomlion Ghana Limited and as the video ended, the auditorium erupted in applause from the delegates.
This was the first time a West African conglomerate, specifically the Jospong Group from Ghana, was participating in Kenya’s Devolution Conference.
