Upper Manya Krobo District was carved out of the vast Manya Krobo District three years ago. Under the normal circumstances, many of the villages should have enjoyed potable water.
This is because the area, with numerous deprived communities, lies near a tributary of the Volta River from which treated water is pumped to Koforidua, the entire New Juaben Municipality and some communities in East Akyem.
Although provision was made for some of the communities along the pipeline to benefit from the Koforidua Water Project others had been left out.
Such an unfortunate situation is delaying the inauguration of the facility although work has almost been completed within the New Juaben Municipality and the people have started enjoying the facility.
The reason is that President Mills who is to inaugurate the facility directed that all the villages along the pipeline should be covered before the inauguration, and therefore asked the Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing, Mr Alban Sumana Bagbin, to act in that direction which was being done.
One deprived community which lies far away from the pipeline and would therefore not be covered is Kwabia Teyi.
The people of this village, together with other 15 adjoining smaller villages and hamlets with approximate population of about 1,000, depend on unwholesome water from a source shared with cattle.
Most of the inhabitants as expected have been contracting water-borne diseases and as such some of them have left such villages to join relatives in other areas where potable water is available, leaving behind vast stretches of arable land for farming, the mainstay in the area.
To reverse such an unfortunate trend, the Maranatha Power Ministries decided to provide a borehole for the villagers.
Inaugurating the facility at Kwabia Teyi, the General Overseer of Maranatha, Rev Francis Afotey Odai, said the church which had established a branch in the area, had to provide the people with potable water.
“The church is not only taking care of the spiritual needs of the people, but their physical needs as well and we are doing this to alleviate your suffering,” Reverend Afotey Odai told the people at the inauguration ceremony which was attended by all the chief farmers and people of the beneficiary communities.
Rev. Afotey Odai stated that Maranatha Power Ministries would ensure that other villages in the area also got the facility in due course, and advised the people to maintain the facility.
The District Chief Executive for the area, Mr Joseph Tetteh Angmor, who witnessed the ceremony, said provision had been made for 30 more villages to benefit from the Koforidua Water Project.
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