PROGRAMME TO TRANSFORM UPPER MANYA DISTRICT BEGINS (PAGE 14)

AN ELABORATE programme to transform the newly created Upper Manya District in the Eastern Region into one of the endowed districts in the region has begun.
Under the programme, most of the towns and communities in the district, which were carved out of the vast Manya Krobo District in 2008, would be provided with social amenities such as good roads, clinics and schools.
Unveiling the programme at this year’s first ordinary meeting of the assembly at Asesewa, the district capital on Monday, the District Chief Executive, Mr J.T. Angmor, said it had become necessary to undertake the programme because most of the communities lacked basic necessities of life.
He said although some of the projects initiated a few years ago in some of the communities had been completed, some were ongoing while others were yet to be provided.
Mr Angmor who mentioned the renovations of classroom blocks at Asesewa, Dawa Korlewa, tarring of two kilometers of Asesewa town roads as well as the extension of electricity to the District Assembly Primary School at Asesewa as some of the projects that had been completed, said some of the ongoing projects were a lorry park at Asesewa, a revenue shed, also at Asesewa, clinics at Sumuer Ternguaya and Samlesi, teachers bungalows at Anyaboni, a 16-seater KVIP toilet at Sekesua and culverts at Asesewa.
Other projects that were to be awarded on contract, he stated, included the maintenance of the Aboasa Junction-Kumakuma Sisi Feeder Road as well as the Sekesua-Ternguanya Road.
Other projects were electrification of the communities that had not yet been connected to the national grid, office buildings and residential accommodation for staff of the assembly, most of who stayed in far away places such as Koforidua.
According to Mr Angmor, as a newly-created district which needed to generate more revenue to support its development programme, its revenue collectors had performed poorly, adding that out of the GH¢903,300 projected to be collected as internally generated funds, grants and other sources, of which GH¢206,000 was targeted as internally-generated revenue,only a fraction had been collected.