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Kpando Torkor to get storage facilities MCE

The Kpando Municipal Assembly would rehabilitate the Kpando Torkor market and install a storage facility to assist both fisher folks and traders to add value to the fish stock.

Date Created : 9/4/2018 12:00:00 AM : Story Author :

To that effect, the Municipal Assembly has earmarked 300,000 Ghana Cedis in its short to medium strategic plan to start the project.Inclusive in the project plan is the construction of classroom blocks for the community.

Mr Elvis Djampoh, the Kpando Municipal Chief Executive, said this at a durbar organised in honour of regional delegations from 16 African countries and representatives of four organisations from Europe, who went there to share ideas and experiences of the success story of the Torkor Model.

The delegates attended the just ended Regional Workshop for Rural Workers and Small Producers Organisation to exchange experiences of organising against child labour in Africa, organised by International Labour Organisation (ILO), Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) and General Agricultural Workers Union (GAWU) of the Trades Union Congress, Ghana.

Torkor is a fishing community in the Kpando Municipal Assembly where child labour practice was common until the General Agricultural Workers Union (GAWU) of TUC-Ghana intervened in 2004 with the Torkor Model, aimed at eliminating child labour in Torkor and its environs.

The Torkor Model had since rescued about 4,500 children from the practice and put them in school, some of whom have completed and are working in various sectors, while about 1,425 farmers and fishermen have been registered as members of GAWU, thus encouraging adult labour and decent work.

Mr Djampoh commended GAWU and its partners for their vision and effort to end the practice in the area and pledged the Assembly’s support to eradicate the practice completely in the Municipality.

He announced that the Municipal Assembly had built a Police and Health Post for the community to ensure security and health delivery in the area.

The Assembly also extended potable water supply to the Torkor Community and supplied them with new Pontoon to curb the persistent accident on the lake, he added.

The MCE said plans were far advanced to develop Torkor to a tourists centre and urged the visitors to sell the idea to the international community to attract investment to the area.

Mr Henry Dake, the Municipal Development Planning Officer, said they had already surveyed the entire market and documented the needs of the market and submitted it at the appropriate quarters for action.

He said they would also capitalise on the Government’s policy to give one million Ghana Cedis per Constituency to achieve the goal.

Togbe, Gbadagbari II, Chief of Torkor, in a speech read for him, said the success story of the Torkor Model was as a result of the cooperation of all stakeholders and urged parents to invest in their Children’s education to secure their future.

He said material and financial support from GAWU had made it possible for the rescued children to be in school and urged foreign partners to continue to sponsor GAWU activities to ensure total eradication of the practice in Ghana.