Communities urged to help sustain development

Twifo Praso (C/R), Aug 4, GNA- Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies in the central region benefiting from the Community Water and Sanitation Agency projects have been urged to pay their counterpart funding to ensure the sustenance of the programme. Ms Leticia Ackon, Extension Service Specialist at the Central Regional Secretariat of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) made the call at a day's workshop to brief assembly members and heads of department in the Twifo-Hemang lower-Denkyira district about the Agency's programmes, at Twifo-Praso.

She expressed regret at what she described as some communities "luke warm attitude" in the payment of their contribution towards the provision and maintenance of social amenities like hand dug wells, boreholes and places of convenience. She said various communities in the district, were indebted to the Agency to the tune of GH=A215,100 (151 million cedis) and warned that beneficiary districts that fail to pay would not be considered for future programmes.

The District Chief Executive, Mr Samuel Agyeibie-Kessie, commended development partners, such as the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA), European Union (EU), World Vision Ghana and the International Development Agency (IDA) for assisting to provide a number of social amenities for the district. During an open forum, the assembly members appealed to the assembly to 'bail out' the defaulting communities, while they intensify the education on the need for the people to honour their obligations towards the projects.