Awutu Beraku (C/R), Nov.19, GNA-The Awutu-Senya District Assembly has, within the past three and half years, been executing many development projects to help improve the livelihoods of the residents.
Mr. Stephen Quaye, Awutu-Senya District Chief Executive (DCE), who stated this at the Second Ordinary Meeting of the Assembly at Awutu-Senya, said the projects were funded with the Assembly’s share of the Common Fund.
The meeting enabled the Assembly members to approve the fee fixing resolution and the Composite Budget for 2020 /2021 Fiscal Year.
The DCE mentioned the construction of a three-bedroom staff accommodation at Awutu Beraku, which was 80% completed, renovation of Nurses Quarters and consulting room/Out Patient Department (OPD) at Bontrase Health Center (65% completed) and the renovation of a three-Classroom Block at Akpeteshie Nkwanta Junior High School, which was 60% completed.
Other projects are the construction of an office for the National Health Insurance Scheme at Awutu Beraku (73% completed), completion of Bonsuoku CHPS Compound, rehabilitation of Pobikwaa-Annan Feeder Road (15% completed) and the construction of a three-Bedroom Assembly staff accommodation (87% completed).
The rest are the graveling of roads at Bontrase (48% completed) and the construction of market stalls at Awutu Bawjiase.
Mr. Quaye stated that procurement processes had been initiated for the dredging and construction of a footbridge at Ponpong and the construction of five culverts at Obrachire, Bawjiase, Ankwando and Akrampa communities.
Potable water was also being extended to Awutu Beraku, while two semi-detached Nurses’ Quarters as well as market sheds would be built. A shed for a Cassava Mill will also be built at Bontrase, Saakwa.
Under sanitation, he informed the House that the Environmental Health Unit trained staff on the COVID-19 pandemic protocols and also supervised two quarterly disinfestation activities in collaboration with Zoomlion Ghana Limited and Tebel Company Limited.
The Assembly, in collaboration with the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Constituency, Nenyi George Andah, arranged for the evacuation of refuse at Bontrase, Bewuenum, Obrachire, Bawjiase, Adawukwa, Mampong and Papaase communities, he said.
The Bontrase Market was also being restructured to make the market more hygienic for use.
Under Agriculture Mr. Quaye informed the House that the District had achieved a lot under the Planting for Food and Jobs Agenda, as well as the Planting for Export and Rural Development, with a total of 10,719 farmers benefiting.
They also received knapsack sprayers, fertilizers and seeds, such as maize, tomatoes, pepper, cucumber, carrots.
A total of 220 farmers also received 11,000 coconut seedlings under the Planting for Export and Rural and Development.
As part of government’s plan to support livestock farmers under Rearing for Food and Jobs, 500 cockerels were distributed to 50 farmers, 32 livestock, including, sheep and goats were distributed to 16 farmers to improve their breeding stock.
He said 90 students had graduated from the Bawjiase Greenhouse Project, initiated by the government, to reduce the importation vegetables and also to train the youth in intensive vegetable production using greenhouse technology.
In an effort to increase access and improve quality education delivery in the District, the MP, Nenyi Andah, sponsored the District Mock Examination Exercise for the 2020 BECE Candidates.
He also provided 60 dual desks and four teachers’ tables and chairs to the Ofaso Methodist Basic School after sponsoring the renovation works and donating 1,000 Mathematical sets to pupils in various schools in the district.
GNA