Dorimon, (UW/R), Feb. 18, GNA–Mr Christopher Braimah, the Assembly Member for Dorimon Electoral Area in the Wa West District, has decried the lack of potable water for the Dasaayiri community.
He explained that the situation had compelled residents in the community to depend on a dam in the area, which posed a serious health risk to them.
Mr Braimah, who said this in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at Dorimon, said, “When it rains the water washes the faeces into the dam and that was where they were also drinking from”.
“I wrote letters to philanthropic organisations and World Vision came and gave them alloy, for them to add to the water to reduce the mud before use. Dasaayiri is a very old community but there is no single borehole there”, he added.
He indicated that all efforts at the District Assembly to get at least a borehole for the community was not successful.
The Assembly Member noted that the situation had been a source of worry to him, and appealed to philanthropies to come to their aid.
He also cited the Passele community and the Dorimon township as also having water challenges and said Passale community had no borehole while the existing boreholes at Dorimon were woefully inadequate.
Mr Braimah said the Jambusie water pipelines passed through the Dorimon community to Wa, but the water situation was still a challenge to them.
“They gave us only two pipes, and the people managing them are not also regular, but there are more than 200 people here who want to tap the water to their houses. That can even be a source of revenue for the water company,” he observed.
He said he had written letters to Upper West Regional office of the Ghana Water Company Limited since 2020 to extend the water pipelines to the community but that was yet to be done though they had promised to do so.
The Assembly Member also talked about the state of education in the electoral area and cited the Siela and Passe Basic Schools and the Kogle-Donkoru Kindergarten in the area as not having School Feeding which discouraged benefitting from the School Feeding programme, which prevent children from attending school.
“There was a time Siela and Passe communities used to contribute food and money to feed their children at school, but this year we had poor yield, so they are not able to contribute anymore,” he said, and appealed to the government to extend the SFP to those schools.
Mr Braimah also indicated that some children had to lie on their bellies to write due to lack of furniture at the schools, citing the Passe and Siela Basic Schools as the worst affected.
GNA