By Francis Kwabena Cofie, GNA
Madina ( G/A), April 12, GNA – Mr Ibrahim Faila Fussein, the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of La Nkwantanang-Madina Municipal Assembly, Hon. has embarked on a tour of the various on-going infrastructural project sites within the municipality to assess the progress of the projects which are under various levels of completion.
He was accompanied by the Municipal Coordinating Director, Madam Abena Kesiwa Kyei, Assembly Members of the concerned electoral areas and selected heads of departments.
Among the project sites visited were Baba Yara M/A Basic School benefitting from a clinic, nurses quarters, an 18 units classroom block and a Mosque, a three- storey Oyarifa Zonal Council Office, a three-storey 18-unit classroom block at Pantang Hospital Basic School, construction of roads totalling 8.3km within the Pantang enclave and Madina Estate.
All the projects visited were at different levels of completion with some at the lintel level, other storeys had ground floor completed, the foundation of two storey were completed while the road construction at Pantang and Madina Estate were progressing steadily.
At the Pantang Hospital Road project, Mr. Samuel Opoku Acheampong, the Project Manager, indicated that though the project was scheduled to be completed in two years, much improvement would be seen in six months.
He mentioned that the construction of the culvert cutting through the road was time consuming, adding that once completed the work would be completed in a good time.
Addressing the media, the MCE said government was committed to inclusive governance through bringing development to the doorstep of all citizens through such projects working through local governance.
He explained that, but for the bureaucratic system of assembly operations, his outfit would have changed the development landscape of the municipality in a shorter period than normal for all things being equal.
According to him, each of the 15 electoral areas in the municipality would be touched in terms of development in the form of various infrastructural projects such as schools, hospitals, clinics and roads among others.
He disclosed that some of the projects were being funded by the Internally Generated Fund while others were under the District Assembly Common Fund.
The MCE expressed satisfaction with the ongoing road projects on the Pantang stretch, which was about sixty percent complete.
Mr Fussein pleaded with residents of the area and adjoining districts to cooperate with ongoing development activities to ensure that the people benefited from the well-intentioned policies of the government.
He appealed to motorists plying the Pantang Abokobi Road to exercise restraint as the road project progresses steadily.
He thanked Francis Xavier Sosu, the Member of Parliament for the area, for his constant support to the assembly in addressing the development needs of the people.
The assembly, he said, was committed to pushing the development frontiers of the area to a wider margin.
GNA
Edited by Benjamin Mensah