By Robert Tachie Menson, GNA
Dormaa-Ahenkro, (Bono), May 05, GNA – Mr Joseph Addae Akwaboa, the Bono Regional Minister has directed the Dormaa Central Municipal Assembly to facilitate the development of the Kokuan community into a standard tourist destination site.
He asked the Assembly to submit proposals and a road map to the Regional Coordinating Council (RCC) for the development of the area to boost eco-tourism.
Mr Addae Akwaboa gave the directive when he extended his “Accounting to the People” tour and interacted with the people at a forum at Dormaa-Ahenkro.
Responding to a question on the government’s position on the tourism potential at Kokuan, a farming community, the Regional Minister asked the Assembly to outline the tourism prospects in the community in the proposal that would go to the Ministry of Tourism for consideration.
“The proposal should serve as a road map, documenting in detail what can be done at the tourist site”, he stated, and asked the assembly to fund the project with the District Assembly Common Fund (DACF).
Mr Akwaboa also advised egg traders in the municipality to remain calm, assuring them of the government’s dedication to resolve the problem to enable the traders to export eggs back to neighbouring Burkina Faso.
He said plans were advanced for the establishment of a medical school at the University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR) to train more medical practitioners to feed the Sunyani Teaching Hospital.
Mr Addae Akwaboa added that the GETFUND had also taken an inventory of all the stalled projects at the Dormaa campus of UENR, working together with the Ministry of Education to facilitate the resumption of construction works and completion of those educational projects.
He assured that the government would also complete abandoned projects at the Community Day Senior High School at Danyame, and that the Dormaa-Ahenkro-Koraso-Aboabo Road project would also be completed.
Earlier, Mr Agyemang Kyere Somey, a communications team member of the NDC in the municipality, noted that developing the tourism potential at Kokuan would create job opportunities and spur rapid socio-economic growth and development.
He said the Kokuan tourism site had features like mountainous rocks, linking Ghana and Cote D’Ivoire with water gushing out from it, a paraglider scene, a base for zipline, and a grotto.
GNA
Edited by Dennis Peprah/Benjamin Mensah
Reporter: Robert Tachie Menson
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