Poor road network retarding progress of Upper Manya District - DCE

Asesewa, Oct. 25, GNA - Poor road network is one major problem confronting the Upper Manya District and has retarded the development agenda of the area, Mr Joseph Tetteh Angmor, the District Chief Executive (DCE), has complained.

He indicated that with the exception of the Asesewa-Koforidua main road, there is no single tarred road in the whole district, which is one of the newly created ones.

Mr Angmor, who was addressing a meeting of the assembly at Asesewa, on Monday, said he had written several letters to the Ministry of Roads and Highways to go to their aid.

He said the assembly's efforts towards improving the educational infrastructure in the district were yielding positive results. The DCE mentioned some of the projects as the rural clinic at Terguanya, which would be completed soon, renovation of two separate six-unit classroom blocks for the Asesewa Methodist Junior High School (JHS) and the Asesewa District Assembly JHS.

Mr Angmor said documentation on the six-unit classroom block, office, store and staff common room for the Sawa Presbyterian Primary School had been completed awaiting the award of the contract for work to begin. He said the government had provided six new school buildings projects under the "School under trees" and basic school rehabilitation programme.

On employment for the youth in the district, Mr Angmor said currently 776 people had been employed under the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) under 12 modules.

He said additional 45 youth had also been employed under the newly introduced module, Youth-in Road Maintenance, adding that, the district would also recruit another 250 youth for the Youth-In-Agriculture Module.

The intake for Youth in Dressmaking and Hairdressing modules increased from 20 to 45.

On revenue generation, the DCE said at the end of August this year, the assembly had mobilized a total amount of GHC 111, 201.89 into the Internally Generation Fund (IGF), which represents 43 percent of the total GHC 269, 750.00 proposed for the year.

He said with new strategies and renewed efforts to meet the set revenue target, the assembly had projected to achieve 70 percent to 75 percent of its IGF budget by the end of the year.