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Ellembelle DCE initiates social intervention projects to improve lives

The Ellembelle District Assembly led by the District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr Kwasi Bonzoh, has initiated many social intervention projects to enable the are a march up in terms of development, growth and the overall well-being of its people.

Date Created : 11/6/2019 12:00:00 AM : Story Author : Mildred Siabi-Mensah/Ghanadistricts.com

Some of the interventions include the provision of boreholes, rehabilitation of existing road networks and clearing and construction of new roads and markets, with the latest addition being the sod cutting for the construction of a three-Unit Classroom blocks with ancillary facilities in five (5) separate communities to promote and expose them to formal education.

Education with the ability to end the vicious cycle of poverty among families was yet to gain root in the District, accounting for a forty percent deficit, which may impede the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals four on quality education.

Speaking during the sod-cutting ceremonies and handing over of project sites to individual contractors at the various communities, Mr. Bonzoh told the chiefs and people in beneficiary communities that the Assembly would continue to prioritize key social intervention projects within the District particularly the rural settings, to bring them up on the social ladder.

The school buildings to be completed within four months at a cost of approximately 350,000 Ghana cedis, would have ICT Centres equipped with computers, office furniture, store rooms and staff common rooms in all five communities namely Bomuakpoley, Basake, Nvenlesolo, Asanta and Salman all in the District.

The contractors are expected to mobilize to site within two weeks have been given a caution note to deliver on time for use in the next academic term.

He said the Assembly have decided to invest hugely in education infrastructure within the two years ahead and believed that proper utilization of the Mineral Development Fund, the DACF and other internally generated resources would be of immense help to raise the living standards of the people.

"I am working hard as your DCE to improve upon the living conditions in this District, he said, adding that, very soon the 28km Esiama-Nkroful-Ayinase road will be fixed by the government.

According to the DCE, the Assembly was also focused on job creation for the teeming unemployed youth, providing health, and water and sanitation facilities among others.

We are also constructing boreholes with hand-pumps in every deprived community such as Asasetre-Nyamebekyere, Ngabawie, Aluku and Abeyieyie also known as Togbe,he added.

Mr. Bonzoh K said the NPP government led by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo intended to also put up a new district hospital at Nkroful to avoid the over reliance, and ease congestion at the St. Martin de Porres Catholic Mission Hospital located at Eikwe, which currently serves as the only hospital in the Ellembelle District.

He also expressed gratitude to the chief of Nkroful, Nana Kwasi Kutua V for releasing 47 acres of land for the intended district hospital project.

Mr. Peter Ackah Blay Quayson, the Ellembelle District Director of Education, said it was only through proper formal education that the residents could fully participate in the oil find and the many opportunities that came with.

Aside, this, he said education had become free at the senior high level and therefore there was the need to ensure access at the basic level to increase enrolment particularly in deprived communities.

Mr. Quayson was therefore grateful to the Assembly for the bold step to invest in education and urged the contractors to work to specifications and on schedule.

The chiefs in all the communities visited pledged their individual and community support for the successful completion of the projects to ensure that children in the communities accessed quality education.

Nana Minla Kpanyinli III, Chief of Bomuakpoley whilst expressing gratitude, said there was the need for the country to eschew partisan politics but rather forge ahead in unity for the development of the country.

He pledged on behalf of the community to support and monitor to ensure value for money in the delivery of the contract.

Within the project execution phase, the Assembly would hold monthly inspection and meeting with contractors together with community leaders to ensure that they worked within the project scope, he said.