Jomoro MCE tours communities | Ghana News Agency (GNA)

By P.K Yankey, GNA

Half-Assini (W/R),
July 16, GNA – The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Jomoro, Mr Ernest Kofie
has begun a familiarisation tour of towns and villages within the area to
explain government programmes and policies to the Chiefs and people.

The tour, geared
towards accelerating development in the area is also to identify problems
confronting the people and initiate strategies to solve.

This is the first
tour by the MCE sine he was appointed.

It is to bring local
governance to the doorstep of the people and to learn at first hand problems in
the Municipality such as the state of the road network, sanitation facilities,
electricity and the state of some school.

Some of the
communities visited so far include; New Nzulezo, Azuleti, Mpataba, Nuba,
Ndumsuazo, Nawule and New Kabenlesuazo.

Addressing the
chiefs and people of Azuleti, the MCE urged them to unite and help government
in all spheres of endeavours to ensure the developmental of the area, since
government cannot do it alone.

The MCE urged the
people to be law-abiding and fulfill all their tax commitments to the Municipal
Assembly adding that, his doors were always opened to their diverse views,
opinions and suggestions that would inure to the rapid socio-economic development
of the new Municipality

Mr Kofie urged
farmers to embrace the government’s Planting for Food and Jobs programme to
better their livelihoods.

The Queen Mother of
the area, Nana Awuah Badwo III, thanked the MCE for visiting them to know their
concerns and appealed for the establishment of a Junior High School (JHS) for
the community to ease their burden of sending their wards to different towns to
further their education.

At Mpataba
community, the Chief, Nana Ndefo III appealed to the MCE to renovate the
existing JHS block, adding that, the block was at the verge of collapsing.

The Headmaster of
Mpataba M/A JHS, Mr Pious Blay used the opportunity to appeal to the MCE to
provide them with computers to enhance effective teaching and learning of ICT.

The MCE promised to
work assiduously and provide the computers as soon as possible and advised the
students to take their studies seriously and respect their parents.

At Nuba, the MCE
revealed that the government has signed a partnership agreement with the
Moroccan government to establish a fertilizer plant in the Jomoro Municipality.

The MCE expressed
worry over the land litigation which was likely to stall the project or it
being transferred to a new District.

He appealed to the
chief of the area to settle the issue with the other chiefs, who were
litigating over the ownership of the land to allow the project to commence.

He said the youth in
the Municipality were unemployed and that, if the project comes off, it would
be create over 3,000 job opportunities, both indirectly and directly.

The MCE pledged the
assembly’s commitment to donate GHC12,000 to the Nuba community to purchase a
brand new water pump to replace the old damaged one.

He asked the
community to rally behind President Akufo-Addo’s Free SHS flagship programme
and educate their children well at the JHS level to enjoy the programme.

Nana Simanli
Kpanyinli III, chief of Nuba, in a welcoming address, thanked the MCE for the
kind gesture and pledged to supervise the repair of the water project.

He however expressed
concern about the deplorable state of the four kilometre feeder road linking
the community to Sowodadzem and appealed to the Assembly to rehabilitate it to
facilitate the movement of people and farm produce..

He assured the MCE
that he would personally speak to his colleague chiefs litigating over the
proposed land for the establishment of the fertiliser plant.

He said he was ready
to release land for the oil companies, looking for land to establish any
facility in the Municipality.

GNA

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