Bimbila embarks on development projects

Bimbilla (N/R), April 26, GNA - The District Chief Executive for Nanumba North, Mr. Mohammed Ibin-Abass, has expressed gratitude for the prudent management of the assembly's resources that has made it to undert= ake some infrastructural development despite meeting a debt of GH¢300,000 f= rom the previous administration.

He said because of the huge debts of the district at the time, development partners were not ready to assist the district but his administration had been able to cancel those debts raising confidence in the development partners.

Mr. Ibin-Abass was addressing a durbar at Bimbilla at the weekend wh= ich was attended by a cross-section of the people. He said within a short time in office his administration had built 1= 0 bungalows for tutors of the Bimbilla Training College, classrooms and dormitories at Bimbilla Senior High School and a soya-bean processing factory which is still being constructed. The assembly has also built a chip-zone at Napa and improved some mar= ket structures. The assembly intends to extend mechanized water facility to f= our communities though the Northern Regional Water Project.

Mr. Ibin-Abass said some feeder roads had been improved through resurfacing and had collaborated with the Ghana Highway Authority to impr= ove some parts of the Eastern Corridor roads. He said massive employment of the youth in the area would soon start through the NYEP and that the block farming concept was still on course a= nd several youths had been engage in it.

He expressed concern about the bad roads in the area and shortage of=

portable water in the district and said these are the major problems the district was facing and called for assistance from the government. Mr. Ibin-Abass appealed to the Ministry of Health to post more healt= h personnel to the area since the district has only one doctor and few nurs= es. He also appealed for an ambulance. "The district does not have an ambulance and patients in critical conditions may die before they get to the regional hospital through public transport". 26 April 10