Five communities in Kwabre to benefit from Urban IV projects

Mamponteng (Ash), May 15, GNA - Five communities in the Kwabre district of Ashanti are to benefit from an 8.9 billion-cedi project dubbed: "Urban IV" which is jointly sponsored by KFW of Germany and the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development.

Mr. Eric Quao, Kwabre District Engineer of the Project, who announced this, mentioned the beneficiary towns are Ahwiaa, Kenyase, mamponteng, Aboaso and Ntonso.

Speaking at a ceremony to hand over the sites at Mamponteng last Friday, Mr Quao said Ahwiaa would have a six-unit classroom block for the JSS, three classrooms and sanitary facilities for the Catholic Primary 'B' kindergarten and another three-classrooms and sanitary facilities for its experimental JSS.

He said Kenyase would have a six-classroom block with urinal, whiles a KVIP will be constructed for Mamponteng local authority primary and JSS respectively.

In addition, a combined maternity and Maternal and Child Health (MCH) block will also be built for mamponteng.

Mr Quao said Aboaso would have a three-classroom kindergarten block and sanitary facilities for the Catholic primary 'A' school and three-classroom block for the local authority JSS stream 'B'. He said Ntonso would also have a six-unit classroom block and another three unit-classroom, in addition to a store, office and sanitary facilities for the Handaria Islamic primary and JSS. He said all the schools would have head teachers' offices and staff common rooms.

The Resident Engineer said under the project, the German Government through the German Bank for Reconstruction also known as KFW, will provide 90 per cent of the cost with the district assembly and beneficiary communities contributing the remaining 10 per cent. He pointed out that the projects are supposed to be completed between 18 months and two years, but due to the urgency of the projects, the contractors have been tasked to finish in only nine months. Mr Quao described the project as a "fast track one" which has already been detailed and planned, but it was very important that beneficiary communities drew the attention of issues concerning the project to the engineers to enhance the smooth implementation of the project.

Mr Edward Frempong-Manso, the District Co-ordinating director who received the documents on the project, hoped the contractors would work hard to complete the project on schedule. He said the documents would be put at the disposal of all beneficiary communities for verification.