MCE Adumuah granting an interview at an exhibition stand
Some 493 people in the Adentan Municipality in
Accra have benefited from the government’s flagship “Planting for Foods and
Jobs” programme through the supply of subsidised seeds and fertilisers.
Farmers have additionally received 543 litres
of assorted chemicals to control the fall armyworm infestation.
The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of Adentan,
Daniel Alexander Nii Noi Adumuah, gave the information when he addressed
journalists at a metropolitan, municipal and district chief executive (MMDCE)
meet-the-press series held in Accra last Friday.
He indicated that about 200 farmers had also
undergone various technical training programmes to improve their farming
techniques under a five-year Modernising Agriculture in Ghana (MAG) project.
He said the assembly had embarked on two
European Union (EU)-funded local economic development projects which consisted
of mushroom production and Fish for Development Project (FIDEP).
“So far, 5,500 people have been trained to
produce mushroom along the value chain, 48 farmers including 12 people with
disabilities have been given direct support totalling 92,000 without interest,”
he said.
Besides, the MCE said over 2,000 beneficiaries
were expected to be trained at a yet-to-be completed Fish Demonstration Centre
under the FIDEP.
Addressing sanitation within the municipality,
Mr. Adumuah said 11 out of 17 institutionalised toilet
facilities under the GAMA sanitation project had been completed and handed over
to various schools, while additional five are set to be completed and handed
over by the end of the year.
Other sanitation interventions he mentioned
included piloting of waste segregation programme within the municipality, placing
of 12 central waste containers at vantage points in the assembly and the
construction of 1,800 household toilets.
Speaking on social intervention programmes in
the assembly, he said 289 households were benefitting from the Livelihood
Empowerment Programme (LEAP) while 1,300 youth had been employed within the
assembly under the Nation Builders Corp (NABCO) programme.
He also disclosed that issues of child
protection had improved over the past three years as “80 successful child
custody cases were done, 123 maintenance cases were dealt with successfully, 60
missing but found children were reunified with their families, 30 abandoned
babies were also amicably dealt with,” he added.
By Issah Mohammed
