Accra (GAR), July 16, GNA - The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Founder of the Duke Williams Foundation for Hope and Charity, a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), has commended government for connecting the Nkatsim community near Mankessim in the Ajumako Enyan-Essiam District to the national electricity grid.
The commendation comes two weeks after the Foundation had made a passionate appeal to government to fast-track the extension of electricity to the area in order to pave way for development.
Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Accra, Mr Williams who was recently installed as development chief of the town under the stool name Nana Guatuahene Kwame Kumi, said the NGO was poised to create more job opportunities for the people in the community hence the need for electrical power.
He stated that his outfit would set up a gari processing plant and other small-scale industries to help the predominantly farming community with their production.
Nana Kumi said the NGO had earmarked 30,000 dollars to build an ultra-modern school complex for the town, which also made access to electricity in the area very essential.
He noted that the electricity would serve as a source of security to people in the community, especially during the night, and used the occasion to advise the people to put the power to good use in order to conserve energy.
The US Country Director of the NGO, Maggie Smallwood who had also been installed simultaneously as the development queenmother of the town under the stool name Nana Nkosohema Mbiriwa, lauded government for providing the facility, saying it would afford school children the opportunity to study and be abreast with events.
She reiterated the need for government to put the six-and-a-half kilometre Badukrom-Nkastim road in good shape to open up the area to the rest of the District.
Nana Mbiriwa expressed wary about the poor nature of the road, and said it was a source of worry to school children who had to walk several miles to access education.
