Face-lift for four communities in Kumasi on course

Kumasi (Ashanti Region) 12 July '99

Work on the eight-billion-cedi face-lift project for four communities within the Kumasi metropolis which began last year is progressing steadily.

The project, being sponsored by the World Bank under the Urban Four Project, are at Anloga, Aboabo Numbers One and Two and Oforikrom, all suburbs of Kumasi.

Briefing newsmen at Anloga, Mr Alidu Gariba, assemblyman, said the project includes the rehabilitation of roads, electrification, streetlights, potable water supply and places of convenience.

Mr Gariba, however, appealed to the government to include the construction of a new bridge over River Sasakyi to link Sasakyi and Anloga. He said the existing one is in a deplorable state and prevents people from crossing over when it rains because the river overflows its bank.

He said to assist in the effective mobilisation of the people for the project and other programmes in the area, a 33-member Council of Elders, has been formed. It comprises 11 prominent people from each of the major ethnic groups in the area, namely, Akan, Ewe and Northerners.