By
Dennis Peprah, GNA
Adongo, (Ahafo),
Jan. 16, GNA – Mrs Freda Prempeh, the Member of Parliament for Tano North
constituency in the Ahafo Region has affirmed her determination to expand rural
water coverage in the constituency by ensuring all deprived communities
benefited from a mechanised borehole.
This, she explained
implied 100 per cent rural water coverage in the constituency in the next four
years.
Mrs Prempeh said she
had constructed 50 mechanised boreholes in the area, saying construction work
on additional 10 were progressing steadily and expected to be completed in
February this year.
“This year is agenda
boreholes and I will ensure that I drill more than 100 boreholes to supply my
constituents with potable drinking water to improve on their lives”, she said.
Just about 10
years to go, Mrs Prempeh who is the Deputy Minister of Gender, Children
and Social Protection said Ghana must put in strenuous efforts to improve on
rural water supply so as to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) Six
by 2030.
Global goal six
ensures availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for
all, but current national water coverage, according to statistics from the
Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) was around 65.7 per cent.
Interacting with the
media during an inspection visit to her constituency on Wednesday, Mrs Prempeh
emphasised that water remained a basic commodity for essential life and would
thus ensure that deprived communities in the area accessed potable drinking
water.
The MP inspected the
progress of work on the on-going rehabilitation of the Techire-Adrobaa road,
Adongo and Yamfo borehole projects, and on-going Kindergarten school projects
for the Susuanso and Tano Ano communities.
Mrs Prempeh also
inspected works on a yet to be completed durbar ground she was constructing for
the Yamfo Community and 80 bed-capacity hostel for the Tanoso Community Health
Training School.
Mrs Prempeh said
almost all communities in the constituency had somehow benefited from a form of
development project, particularly in education and health sectors, adding that
rehabilitation and expansion of road infrastructure would be massive this year.
The Deputy Minister
said the surest way the people could pay her and President Nana Addo Dankwa
Akufo-Addo’s government back well, was for them to renew their mandate in
Election 2020 by voting for them.
Mrs Prempeh said
development in the area would reach unprecedented levels, if the people voted
for them.
GNA