The People Living With Disability (PWDs) in Abuakwa North Municipality of the Eastern Region have registered their profound gratitude to Nana Addo led government for supporting them.

“This is the first time I am benefiting from the government as a person with disability”. I really needed money to complete a project but upon consultations with the Social Welfare Department of the Assembly, it emerged that, the government does not issue out money to beneficiaries now, rather builds the capacity of beneficiaries to be self dependants, we arrived at a deep freezer for trading for me to trade with by selling water and other cold drinks. I am deeply overwhelmed seeing what the assembly has instock for me at the moment. I thank the President, the Municipal Chief Executive and the Social Welfare Department for remembering we,’ the needy in the society, I call for another term for Nana Akufo-Addo to do more.” Mr. Gyimabi Wiseborne, a 63 year old retired educationist and resident of Akyem Kukurantumi, submitted.
Miss Josephine Nkansah, 53 years, an unemployed mother of two(2) and resident of Akyem Old-Tafo, could not hide her joy but sang praises to the municipal assembly and government by providing her with a deep freezer and sachet water to start a trade to make her self dependant.
Miss Josephine Nkansah stated that, the government’s intention of not giving beneficiaries physical cash instead, procures all that are required to build their capacities as demanded by the beneficiaries is a welcoming one.
“What makes the difference is that, the physical money we were being given by the previous administration were not used for the purpose of which the money were meant for by us, we buy clothes, food and and even spend on our kids with it. This makes us hard up within some few days after receiving our benefits a situation the current administration has solved. Today, I have been given deep freezer and sachet water to trade with by government. I really appreciate the initiative and thank the municipal assembly and the government as a whole.” she added.
Mrs. Mercy Amoasah,the Municipal Director of the Department of Social Welfare and Community Development, said, this is the third phase of building the capacity of people living with disabilities in the municipality since the inception of the assembly in 2018.
Mrs Amoasah stated that, twenty-five beneficiaries recieved their items based on their requests. Items distributed included deep freezers with automatic voltage regulators and bags of sachet water, Corn milling maching, food stuffs, laptop etc.

The Municipal Chief Executive for Abuakwa North Municipal Assembly Hon. Owusu Twum-Ampofo in his submission, advised all the beneficiaries to make good use of what they have recieved for socio-economic development of the country as the government is committed to not living anyone behind.
He further advised them(PWDs) to be cautious of people who may in one way or the other draw closer to them to milk them off their profits as they(PWD’s) capacity has been built by government to make them self dependants.
By// Nana Kwasi Asare
Source//Obohnews























