ATIWA PROJECTS NEARING COMPLETION (PAGE 35, SEPT 13, 2010)

ALL projects awarded in the Atiwa District in the Eastern Region last year are at their completion stages.
The projects, comprising social amenities such as foot bridges and roads to facilitate transportation, are to improve the living standard of the people in the various communities.
The District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr Emmanuel Atta Twum, made this known at the assembly’s ordinary meeting at Kwabeng at the weekend.
He, however, stated that the contract agreement between the Architectural and Engineering Services Limited (AESL) and the assembly on one hand and Messrs Rabeck Ghana Limited on the other for the extension of the main office block would be terminated.
The DCE said the termination of the project had become necessary due to some challenges, adding that the contract would be awarded to a new company to speed up its completion.
He said the assembly was doing its best to ensure that all ongoing projects were completed on schedule.
Mr Atta Twum stated that the district had received GH¢1,614,029 as its first quarterly share of the District Assemblies’ Common Fund for 2010 to finance a number of projects.
He, therefore, called for support from the assembly members for the early completion of the projects.
With regard to the Youth and Agriculture Programme, he said 70 young persons in the district had been assisted to cultivate maize on a 75-acre land.
The DCE stated that the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, through the Agricultural Development and Value Chain Enhancement Programme, a non-governmental organisation, was linking citrus farmers to the market and so far, 350 of them had been registered.
On education, he said schools in the district were facing many challenges such as inadequate furniture, teaching staff, potable water and electricity, which his administration was doing its best to solve.
Touching on the forthcoming Population and Housing Census, Mr Atta Twum said since it would make it possible to know the approximate number of people in the various communities for the reallocation of resources, the assembly members should educate the people on it for them to patronise it.
Earlier, the Presiding Member, Mr Kwasi Amoako Atta, called on the assembly members to put aside party partisanship and unite to develop the communities.