Nsawkaw provides a police station,

plans to renovate guesthouse

The chiefs and people of Nsawkaw in Wenchi District of Brong Ahafo are putting up an eight-room block to serve as a Police Station in the town at a cost of 42 million cedis.

The project, started in February, is at the roofing level.

The community provided free labour and contributed a special levy of 20,000 cedis a man and 10,000 cedis a woman whilst non-residents paid 50,000 cedis each.

Nana Boakye Kru-Twabea II, Krontihene of Nsawkaw and acting President of Nsawkaw Traditional Council, said at the weekend when a delegation of the Council and some opinion leaders paid a courtesy call on Nana Kwadwo Seinti, Brong Ahafo Regional Minister, to congratulate him on his appointment.

Nana Boakye said the police station has a charge office, an armoury, male and female cells, officer's office, CID office and two places of convenience.

The Krontihene on behalf of the traditional council made a number of requests including a bungalow and barracks for the police personnel and additional low-tension poles to extend power from the old Nsawkaw town to the new site.

Others were the upgrading of Nsawkaw Technical School to a Secondary/Technical and appealed to Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to team up with the traditional council to produce cashew.

Nana Seinti appealed to the council to mobilize the people to form co-operatives to qualify for government funding for the production of cashew.

Nana Seinti said the government had sourced for 13 million dollars from the African Development Bank (ADB) for cashew plantation development and processing in the Region.

''You only need to organize yourselves into co-operatives to enjoy credit facility to boost production.''

He commended the traditional council for their initiative to build the police station and gave the assurance that he would take up some of their needs including police bungalow and barracks and the provision of low-tension electricity poles, with the Wenchi District Assembly for consideration.

Barimah Oppong Sakorosa II, Twafohene of Nsawkaw later told Ghana News Agency (GNA) that after the police station project the Traditional Council would renovate and expand the Government Rest House in the town built in the early 1940s.

He said 55 million cedis was would be spent on the five-bedroom guesthouse.