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Nandom District Assembly urges people to sustain peace

The Nandom District Assembly has urged people in the communities to continue to maintain the prevailing peace and security in the area to enhance development.

Date Created : 12/1/2014 12:00:00 AM : Story Author : GNA

The Assembly pointed out that as a deprived one, it needed absolute peace to attract both foreign and Ghanaian investors, to assist in its development efforts to enable it to catch up with the other districts in the region.

Its District Chief Executive Mr Chief Cuthbert Baba Kuupiel, who cautioned the people, assured them that with collaboration from its development partners, the Assembly would provide open, transparent and accountable management system to enhance decentralization and grassroots participation.

Mr Kuupiel made the call when he addressed heads of government departments and agencies, development partners, non-governmental organisations, traditional rulers, youth and traders associations, as well as a cross-section of the public, at its first ever Nandom District Public ccountability Forum, in Nandom.

The Assembly organised the forum to account for its stewardship to the people, and to seek ideas, inputs, contributions and criticisms from stakeholders, as to how best to manage the district.

Mr Kuupiel said for the assembly to help sustain peace and stability in the communities, it has collaborated with the Member of Parliament, Dr. Benjamin Kunbuor, to provide ultra-modern district police headquarters and a bungalow to accommodate the District Police Commander.

A 10-room private building at Ko has also been renovated for use as a police post, while it has established Public Relations and Complaints Committee, to receive, deliberate and make recommendation to the executive committee

of the Assembly, on matters bordering on the conduct of both the staff and

members of the Assembly.

Mr Kuupiel announced that government has put in place a special electrification package for the newly-created district capital, and work would soon start on the Nandom Township, while many communities have been connected to the national grid, to enhance cottage industry.

On infrastructure development, the chief executive said the Assembly has constructed classroom blocks, Community Based Health Planning and Service (CHPS) compounds, toilet facilities, and teachers' quarters across the

entire district.

Mr Kuupiel commended teachers and students of the Nandom Senior High and Ko Senior High School for maintaining impressive performances in last year's WASSCE

The Nandom Senior High School obtained 96.5 per cent, with four science students scoring aggregate 8. Ko Senior High School scored 50 per cent with the best student registering aggregate 18.

The district chief executive, however, bemoaned the poor performance at the Basic Education Certificate Examinations, with some schools scoring zero per cent in the examinations.

Mr Kuupiel said the Assembly has provided 12 boreholes to communities in the district, and would drill 50 boreholes under the Sustainable Rural Water and Sanitation Programme, with two communities to benefit from small town water systems.

About 10 institutional toilet facilities would also be provided for selected schools under the programme.

He appealed to people in the district to take sanitation issues seriously, and urged them to always turn out to clean their surroundings to rid the capital and the communities of filth on first Saturday of every month, set aside as the District Sanitation Day.

On the Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty (LEAP) Programme, Mr. Kuupiel disclosed that about 453 men and women in the district had befitted from the programme.