Poor infrastructure due to past bad governance

Obo-Kwahu, April 14, GNA - The Eastern Regional Minister, Mr Yaw Barimah, has attributed the government's inability to provide adequate social and infrastructure to the needy communities to the bad governance of the previous government.

He said the government inherited poor economic and inadequate logistics for the public and security sectors for the country to make any meaningful contribution towards the country's development. Mr Barimah was addressing People's Assembly's forums at Nkawkaw and Obo in the Kwahu South and West, respectively, as part of the series government's policy of enhancing grassroots participation in the country's democratic process.

He said the government had put in place pragmatic economic measures to raise adequate internal and international financial assistance to finance social and infrastructural development in the various communities to enhance the living standard of the people. The Regional Minister said the government's programme of good governance, human resource training and infrastructure development is on course, saying 5,000 basic school blocks had been constructed throughout the country in addition to the introduction of the Capitation Grant and the provision of 600 vehicles to the Police Service. He urged Ghanaians to be patient and give the needed support and co-operation to the government to enable it to improve the standard of living of the people.

The District Chief Executives for the two districts, Nana Kofi Kese and Nana Onwona Asante, respectively, enumerated a number of development projects, including construction of classroom blocks, roads, health centres, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), provision of electricity, places of convenience and award of scholarships to students, especially the disabled.

During question time, the people appealed to the government for the construction of more classroom blocks, roads, clinics, places of convenience and extension of electricity to their communities.