The District Chief Executive (DCE) of the Okere District Assembly in the Eastern Region, Daniel Kenneth, has cut the sod for the construction of seven major projects to improve infrastructure deficits in the area.
The project includes six units of classroom blocks with axillary facilities for Apirede Methodist D/A Basic School, Abiriw Presbyterian D/A Basic School, and Adukrom Methodist D/A Basic.
The others are the Adukrom Bypass Road, Dawu Clinic, and Awukugua Teachers’ bungalow and Nurses’ quarters.
These projects are aimed at enhancing teaching and learning to complement the commitment of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government to quality education, healthcare, and roads networking.
Speaking in cross-section with the pressmen, Daniel Kenneth, who doubles as the Parliamentary Candidate for the area, said that the structures of the beneficiary schools were in a bad state, especially the 70-year-old Apirede Methodist Primary School.
He believes the move comes at the right time because schoolchildren deserve a serene environment for their studies to enable them to compete with their colleagues in other schools.
The Okere DCE expressed his profound gratitude to Awukuguahene, Ɔsaberima Ɔpɛse Konadu, for demarcating 10 acres of land to the assembly for the construction of the bungalow facilities.
Mr. Kenneth then said that when the projects commenced, it would create job opportunities for the youth in the area.
He furthered and thanked the incumbent Member of Parliament for the area, Daniel Kwaku Botwe, for lobbying for such important projects from the Social Investment Fund (SIF).
According to him, these developmental projects received would help them in many ways.
Dr. Joseph Ofosu Kwarteng, the Zonal Officer for the Social Investment Fund in Greater Accra, Eastern, Volta, and Oti Regions, hints that they have embarked on a project called the Integrated Rural Development Project.
“Out of the 261 MMDAs in Ghana, only 23 Assemblies were selected, including the Okere District Assembly, he stressed.
“Fortunately for the Okere District, they got 7, and when the projects were given to them we sent a request that they should rather indicate where they wanted the projects to go, and they gave us the names of the aforementioned towns because they are in dire need of the projects,” he stated.
Furthermore, Joseph Hottor, the Construction Manager for Memphis Metropolitan Limited, assured the DCE, MP, and Nanaanom that they would employ more youth from Okere to do the work to enable them to complete the projects within the stipulated period of six months.
By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.
Source// Obohnewsonline.com.
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