Tuesday, September 21, 2010

MCE FOR SUNYANI MUNICIPAL ASSEMBLY COMMISSION`S ACCESS ROADS AT ADJEI ANO NORTH.

The Municipal Chief Executive for Sunyani Hon. Kwasi Oppong Ababio on Wednesday the 1st of September, 2010 commissioned a 10.7km access roads at Adjei Ano North a suburb of Sunyani. Adjei Ano north which is part of the Penkwasi electoral area in the Sunyani Municipality is a new developing area with very magnificent buildings.

Unfortunately however the area lack social amenities like portable water, street lights, access roads among others. According to the Assembly man of the area Hon. Baffoe Ocrah the lack of access roads in the area made living there very difficult. According to him people had to walk some distance from their houses to the main road from Sunyani to Techiman before they could get the services of Taxis and any time there was a calamity like fire outbreak, fire thunders had difficulty in entering the area. He was therefore full of praise for the MCE and the Assembly for constructing the roads for them.

A unit committee member and the leader of the Adjei Ano north Association Mr. Kasim Adams appealed to the MCE to provide the area with street lights on the new roads, portable water, bridge on the stream between Adjei Ano north and South to make movement between the two areas easy. He also appealed to the MCE to help check the encroachment on lands earmarked for some development projects in the area.

The contractor of the project Mr. M.K Sakyi thanked the inhabitants of the area for their co-operation and help in making the project a reality. Commissioning the project the MCE Hon. Kwasi Oppong Ababio thanked the inhabitants of the area for their immense support to the assembly which has led to the fruition of the project adding “but for your support by buying the fuel needed for the construction of these roads, the assembly alone couldn`t have afforded it at our present financial circumstances”. He continued “Government alone can not do every thing for the people and that is why there is the need for public and private partnership if we can develop as a nation".

He appealed to the rest of the municipality and Ghanaians as a whole to emulate good example of the people of Adjei Ano north for development. Responding to the request by the people the MCE said plans are far advanced to provide every street in Sunyani with street lights and Ajei Ano north is not exempted. On the issue of portable water for the area the he said the assembly will liaise with the Ghana water Company to solve it for them. He continued that now that the assembly has constructed the access roads in the area, the department of urban roads will also better them up even to the level of tarring.

On the encroachment of some lands meant for some specific protects and the need for open spaces, the MCE regretted that in our part of the world unlike others like South Africa, land is used any how without thinking about the future adding “recently I got a Korean who wanted land to build a shopping mall here in Sunyani but I could not get one so he took that important project to Cape coast”.

. “We also needed land to build a new stadium in Sunyani, do you know how I suffered before getting one”?. He finally appealed to all to protect the lands and live in peace. The short ceremony attracted enthusiastic inhabitants of the area, workers of the assembly and some media men and women.