PARTY AFFILIATION NOT BASIS FOR PROVISIONOF AMENITIES (PAGE 16, OCT 30)

THE Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Water Resources, Works and Housing, Mr David Tetteh Assumeng, has stated that the provision of potable water and sanitation facilities for the communities was not based on political party affiliation.
He said it was in that direction that membership of the committee had been drawn from all the political parties in Parliament to ensure that every community or area without water and sanitation facilities would be catered for, irrespective of its party leanings.
Mr Assumeng made the statement at two separate mini durbars at Asiakwa and Akooko, both farming communities in the East Akyem municipality.
That was when he led members of the committee to inspect water and sanitation facilities in the two communities.
They were accompanied by officials of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA), led by its Eastern Regional Director, Mr Phillip Amanor.
The CWSA has, through donor funding, provided the two communities with mechanised boreholes which have been handed over to the people to manage.
Mr Assumeng expressed the committee’s satisfaction with the manner in which the boreholes were being managed and called on beneficiaries of such facilities to do likewise.
Two members of the committee, Madam Cecilia Abena Dapaah and Mr Abu Bonsra, expressed concern over the pollution of rivers and other water bodies by activities of illegal miners (galamsey) and gave the assurance that the committee would see how best to address the problem.
They also thanked DANIDA and KFW of Germany for their assistance in providing social amenities for the communities.
The chairmen of the board on water for Asiakwa and Akooko, Messrs Atta Boadi and S. B. Kwapong, respectively, rendered account of their stewardship to members of the committee, who commended them for the good job done.
At Akooko, the committee tasked the beneficiaries of a modern place of convenience which had been provided in the town to keep it clean at all times.
The Kontihene of Asiakwa, Nana Okyere Gyau, and the Akookohene, Nana Adedewa Pavitang, expressed their appreciation to the government for providing them with potable water.
Earlier, the East Akyem Municipal Chief Executive, Mr Peter Simon Asirifi, had given the assurance that other communities which had not yet benefited from such facilities would have their turn in due course.