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Asuogyaman holds first town hall meeting of the year

The District Chief Executive for Asuogyaman District Assembly, Mr. Samuel Kwame Agyekum together with the various heads of departments at the assembly organized a Town Hall Meeting at New Powmu to account for their people and also educate the inhabitants on the need to contribute their quota of the Internally Generated Funds (IGF) through payment of fees for the development of the district.

Date Created : 2/13/2020 2:58:36 AM : Story Author : Nana Kesse/Ghanadistrict.com

Mr. Agyekum in a brief remarks mentioned that the assembly, in developing the infrastructural facilities in the health sector, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, is constructing a modern Community Based Health Planning and Services (CHPS compound) with an Out-Patients Department (OPD), a dispensary room, a general unit and two (2) self-contain apartment for nurses at New Akrade, Gyekti and Nnudu Kwarkyako and also refurbishing the Anum Salvation Clinic at Anum.

The DCE said, declining fortunes of existing companies in the district like the Akosombo Textiles Limited (ATL) now Akosombo Industrial Textiles Limited and the Ketekrachi Timber Processing Company have been revived through the provision of incentives such as Tax Exemption, Tax Holidays and granting of monetary support by the One District One Factory Secretariat.

He added that, under the One District One Factory (1D1F) policy, the government in the first quarter of 2020 will break grounds for the construction of a fish processing factory at Gyekiti with funding from European Union. The factory will create employment for the youth and will be producing oil fish, fillet and canned fish.

In the education sector, the implementation of the Free Senior High School policy, which intends to equip the human resource base with requisite knowledge at expense of the government has brought great relief to parents financially and most importantly has led to a 68.2 percent increment in enrollment in the various state-owned senior schools in the district

On School Feeding Programme he indicated that there has been an extensive increase in the number of schools on the programme, that is, from eighteen in 2016 to forty schools as of October 2019.

According to him, that contractors on the major economic roads networks namely the Marine through Gyekiti to Anyaase and the stretch from Osebeng through Anum to Boso will this month return to cite to continue with construction as stipulated in their contracts.

Also, he urged the residents to seek a permit from the works department of the assembly before the commencement of any building works and also comply with good sanitation management and environmental practices to ensure a clean and healthy environment.