AKYEMMANSA, UPPER MANYA ASSEMBLIES HOLD MEETINGS (PAGE 35, AUGUST 26, 2010)

THE Akyemmansa and Upper Manya District assemblies have held their ordinary meetings at Akyem Ofoase and Asesewa, their respective capitals.
At the separate meetings, the two assemblies discussed the various development projects and programmes that have been initiated in the various communities.
The projects and programmes include roads, schools and other poverty alleviation measures aimed at improving the lot of the people in the area, especially the villages which lack some of the basic necessities of life.
Addressing assembly members at Ofoase, the District Chief Executive (DCE) for Akyemmansa, Mr Tom Budu, said most of the projects initiated in the area since 2008 had been completed or at the final stages of completion.
Some of the completed projects include a European Union/District Assembly-funded three-unit classroom blocks with offices, stores and KVIP places of convenience for junior high schools at Akyem Ayirebi and Zevor and market shells for Akyem Bontodiase.
Others projects such as a court building at Ofoase, official residential accommodation for the DCE and Co-ordinating Director at Ofoase and classroom blocks with all the necessary facilities at Chia, are at advanced stages of completion.
According to Mr Budu, a number of other projects, including roads such as the 20.4 kilometre Anyinase Junction-Pawudu-Praho road, the 5.7 kilometre Camp Junction-Zevor road and the Ayirebi-Ofoase road, are also being rehabilitated, as well as modern public places of convenience at Ofoase, Brenase, Kotokuom, Chia and Ofoase Zongo.
On revenue mobilisation, the DCE stated that GH¢113,010 was budgeted for the year in respect of internally-generated revenue out of which GH¢40,518.36 had been collected as at the end of the second quarter, representing 35.85 per cent of the budgeted figure.
He urged the revenue collectors to work harder than before in order to generate more revenue for the assembly.
With regard to expenditure, Mr Budu, said GH¢42,806.80 was spent within the period as against GH205,605.00 budgeted for.
The DCE briefed the assembly on proposals for the creation of additional electoral areas for the acceleration of the development of the communities.
He called on the assembly members to redouble their efforts for the success of development programmes.
At the assembly meeting at Asesewa, the Upper Manya District Chief Executive, Mr Joseph Tetteh-Angmor, said most of the projects, which were stated since 2008, had been completed.
The projects include the conversion of an old oil palm factory into offices at a cost of GH¢86,370, conversion of a four-unit classroom block to offices for the assembly with a contract sum of GH52,764, both at Asesewa, street lights at Apimsu, boreholes at Mensah Dawa, Anyaboni and Sekesua, a clinic at Tenguanya and a slaughter house at Asesewa.
Mr Tetteh-Angmor stated that those amenities were financed with the Common Fund and the intervention by the European Union and other sources.
The projects were sited at Asesewa, Samlesi, Anyaboni, Sekesua and other parts of the district.
The DCE said when the rehabilitation of road network in the district was completed, it would tremendously transform the area and improve the living standards of the people.
With regard to the National Youth Employment Programme, Mr Tetteh-Angmor, stated that so far, 221 young persons had been engaged.