By J. K Nabary
Awutu Bereku (C/R), May 25, GNA – Mr Hagan Nyamekye Kalala, the Awutu-Senya West District Chief Executive (DCE), has stated that the concept of the establishment of District Assemblies was all about development which must be a collective responsibility.
“It is my expectation that we will all continue to work together as a team to address why we have shortfall to improve the lives of the good people of Awutu Senya and to make it how we want it to be,” he said.
According to him, in 2025 the District Assembly in collaboration with the Member of Parliament for the area, invested in more than 30 projects and majority of them were in areas of education, health and roads water and sanitation, to help improve the living standards of the citizenry.
Mr Kalala was speaking at the first ordinary meeting of the Assembly at Awutu Bereku, the District Capital.
He stated that all the projects executed were funded through the District Assembly’s Common Fund (DACF), and they include a Community-based Health Planning and Services Compound (CHPS) at Akrampah and Oklu Nkwanta, which were respectively, 50 percent and 95 percent completed, and a 6-unit classroom block at Bosomabena which is 95 percent complete.
Others are the construction of a three-unit classroom and 2-unit KG block at Loye, five mechanised boreholes at Obrachire; while at Bontrase, a nurses’ quarters, a market and the Bontrase Senior High School had all been completed awaiting handing over.
According to Mr Kalala, additional five mechanised boreholes were under construction at Akropong, Papase, Bawjiase Baah City, Bawjiase Biokoye and Mankomeda.
Also, a teachers’ bungalows at Bereku and Kofi Ansah, financed from the DACF of 2025 are also under construction.
The DCE announced that under a two Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) agreement, classroom blocks at Kofi Wettey completed and commissioned, while the one at Akrampa was yet to commence.
Mr Kalala further informed the house that the Community Water Agency had secured a facility to construct a water pumping station at Papaase to serve Bontrase, Ahentia, Ofaakor, Papaase, Adawukwa, Jei Krodua and its environs with potable water and would be completed this year.
On Government Flagship programmes and projects, Mr Kalala assured that the NDC government would deliver on its promises and Awutu-Senya West would not be left out.
He disclosed that 25 percent of the DACF received by the district had been ring-fenced for the construction of a 24-hour model market which one of the promises made by President John Mahama.
He said several engagements held with key stakeholders and the public to agree for a suitable location, settled on Bawjiase and said the site had been handed over to the contractor.
On the nkoko nketsenketse initiative, Mr Kalala stated that the Assembly received ten-thousand-day old chicks as the first consignment, feeds, vaccines and medicines from the Ministry of Agriculture for the poultry revitalisation and the birds were given to two poultry service providers at Bonsuoku and Papaase to breed for four weeks to prepare them before distribution.
According to him 9,200 of the birds survived and were distributed to more than 300 people with some institutions in the district also benefiting.
To promote better livelihoods and businesses of the people, he announced that the government had tasked the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC) to sell Aboboyaa at convenient terms and conditions and that registration of interested persons was ongoing.
He therefore urged the Assembly Members to inform their constituents about it.
“We may be doing well with the revenue mobilised so far, but I can tell you frankly, we are not doing our optimum best and I hope we must engage private enterprises into our data collection and our revenue mobilisation as our surest way to achieve optimum capacity,” he added.
GNA
Edited by Alice Tettey/Benjamin Mensah