Contract for 2.5 billion cedi Asesewa project signed

Asesewa (E/R), Feb. 18, GNA - The government has signed a contract with GTZ, a German NGO, for the commencement of a 2.5 billion-cedi Asesewa water rehabilitation project in the Manya Krobo District to boost water supply to communities in the area. The project, which would begin in about two weeks is expected to be completed within three months.

The Deputy Eastern Regional Minister, Mr Gustav Narh Dometey, announced this at a public forum at Asesewa on Tuesday to explain government policies and provisions made for the people in this year's Budget Statement.

The German NGO will fund 90 per cent of the cost of the project, while the District Assembly and the community will contribute five per cent each. The Assembly has already paid eighty million cedis of the amount.

Mr Dometey said the Volta River Authority (VRA) had offered to pay the five per cent quota for the community as its contribution towards the provision of portable water to the people.

He announced that the government had lined up a number of development projects for the area in the budget to provide the necessary infrastructure at Asesewa to befit its status as the District capital-designate.

Among the projects earmarked in the Budget statement included the upgrading of the Asesewa Clinic to a hospital status at a cost of 16 billion cedis and the tarring of roads throughout the town as soon as the budget is given the approval by Parliament.

The District Chief Executive of Manya Krobo, Mr Andrews Teye, said the Assembly had awarded the Asesewa electrification project on contract at a provisional cost of 160 million cedis to connect the whole community to the national grid.

He referred to information going round in the district crediting the Members of Parliament for development projects and declared that, "no MP brings about development of any sort", saying "it is the central government that executes the projects through them out of the Common Funds given them."

Mr Teye urged the people to register in their numbers when the voters' registration exercise takes off to ensure that they got the franchise to vote in the forthcoming elections. 18 Feb. 04