DCE urges communities to take commercial tree-planting seriously

Mr Peter Light Koomson, District Chief Executive for Ajumako-Enya-Essiam, has disclosed that under the Ghana Social Opportunity Programme (GSOP), each of the five paramountcies in the district, has been allocated GH¢ 50,000 for commercial tree-planting business, adding that the benefits and profits that would accrue from the business, will go direct to the traditional area for other development programmes.

Mr Koomson made this disclosure when he addressed a durbar of chiefs and people of Ajumako-Enya-Essiam, during their Annual Akwambo Kese Festival at Enyan Maim over the weekend.

On the Ebola menace as well as Cholera, Mr Koomson called on the citizenry to stay in healthy environments, and urged farmers, especially hunters, to strive hard to avoid bush meat like bats and monkeys during their hunting expeditions.

Okofo Amoako Bondam the third, Paramount Chief of the Enyan Maim Traditional Area, said the Almighty God had made it possible and peaceful for the people to stay in unity, to celebrate the second edition of the Akwambo Kese Festival.

Okofo Bondam called on parents to make the educational needs of their children a topmost priority.

He said well-educated child will be assets to the nation, because in his view, education was the surest way to eradicate illiteracy and poverty.

He urged the general public to live in healthy environments, in order to avoid the outbreak of epidemics.