AFRICARE provides electricity poles to farming community

AFRICARE, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), has provided Nsarkye community, a pineapple growing area near Aburi in the Akwapim South District with 70 poles at the cost of 74.8 million cedis to facilitate the extension of electricity to the community.

Mr Aaron Ohene Ntow, chairman of the Nsarkye Electrification Project, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that citizens of the town had erected the poles through communal labour.

He said the project, initiated by Nana Akyea Kofi Ababio II Chief of the town and the Queenmother, Nana Akua Oyerewa I, would tap electricity from Amanfro about two kilometres away.

Mr Alex Ofosu Boafo, the Assembly member for the area, said a development levy, ranging from 20,000 to 50,000 cedis, had been imposed on citizens of the town to ensure completion of the project.