Swedru, Jan. 22, GNA
– Mrs Cynthia Morrison, the Member of Parliament for Agona West, has presented
three motorbikes to the Swedru Divisional Police Command to help fight crime in
the Agona West Municipality, which has surged recently.
Mrs Morrison, who is
also the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, said it had come
to her notice that crime wave in the area
was on the rise, hence her support to the Police.
She expressed the
hope that the motorbikes would be used to combat crime for the people to go
about their businesses peacefully.
Mrs Morrison made
the presentation on the occasion of her birthday celebration during which she
made donations to other organisations.
Last year, she
celebrated her day with Persons with Disability at Agona Abodom.
The MP stated that
Agona Swedru was one of the booming business districts of the Central Region
and the residents should stay in peace devoid of attacks from criminals.
The Progressive
Transport Owners Association (PROTOA) was the next to receive from the
Minister, who donated a tricycle (Aboboyaa) for the collection of piled-up
refuse at the various lorry stations in the Agona Swedru Township.
She said sanitation
was one of her topmost priorities, hence the donation of the tricycles to help
tidy the town.
Mrs Morrison said
she had procured machines for the setting up of information centres at Central
and Mandela markets for public announcements and news dissemination to the
traders.
She also donated
ropes to the Agona West Office of the Ghana National Fire Service to help fight
fires.
Assistant
Commissioner of Police (ACP) Samuel Yankey, in charge of Agona Swedru
Divisional Police Command, who received the motorbikes on behalf of the Inspector
General of Police (IGP), thanked the Minister for the gesture.
He assured her that
the motorbikes would be used to fight crime in and around Agona Swedru to
enable people in the Municipality to go about their work peacefully.
Nana Yaw Fayah, the
Central Regional Chairman of PROTOA, received the Aboboyaa on behalf of the
drivers’ unions and thanked the MP for the donation.
He said the donation
was timely because lorry stations at Swedru were engulfed in filth and the tricycle
would help in keeping the environment clean.
The Regional
Chairman appealed to the Zoomlion Waste Management Company to ensure that
refuse collection was done satisfactorily.
GNA