EU to provide 50 million dollars for Kadjebi-Nkwanta-Bimbila road

Ho, July 10, GNA - The European Union will provide 50 million dollars for the reconstruction of the Kadjebi-Nkwanta-Bimbila road. The project, when completed, will reduce the time spent to travel between the south and the north of the country, Mr Kofi Dzamesi, Volta Regional Minister said at a meet-the-press series in Ho on Thursday.

"I dare say that the Volta Region is getting more resources by way of road construction than any other region," he said. He said the Worawora-Dambai section of the Kpando-Dambai road was also under construction at the cost of GHc60 million. Mr Dzamesi said GHc20 million would also go into financing the Sogakope-Akatsi stretch of the Tema-Aflao road. He said the Sogakope-Adidome-Ho-Fume road was also being upgraded into a first class highway.

Mr Dzamesi said the total feeder roads coverage stands at 3,213 kilometres, 2,236 kilometres of which had been engineered. He said these major road projects were being carried out alongside the rehabilitation of seven township roads. Mr Dzamesi appealed to people in the Region to help maintain the roads by avoiding activities which destroy them, such as unauthorized speed ramps, washing of vehicles and oil spillage on the streets. On health, the Minister said the Guinea Worm Eradication Programme had been intensified with a community based surveillance work in all villages in the endemic areas.

He said as a result the Region had recorded zero case of Guinea Worm for the first half of this year in Nkwanta, Krachi East, Krachi West, Jasikan and other districts.

Mr Dzamesi said Government was tackling the lack of potable water for communities in the endemic areas to break the transmission totally. He also stated that serious cases of "kwashiorkor" and marasmus were gradually going down in the Region as a result of educational programmes being aired on radio stations.

Questions were asked on the disbursement of Micro-financing and Small Loan Scheme "MASLOC", installation of prepaid meters in public offices and the state of security in the Region.