‘Provide Bosome-Freho District with office accommodation'

Page 12, Nov 30, 2010
Story: Emmanuel Adu-Gyamerah

THE Member of Parliament (MP) for Bosome-Freho, Nana Yaw Ofori-Kuragu, has appealed to the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development to provide the Bosome-Freho District with its own office accommodation.
The district is among 60 districts (28 created in 2004 and 32 in 2008) which were recently created.
According to the MP, the assembly, which is facing a lot of challenges, is currently occupying an Information Communication Centre, thereby denying the people the use of the Internet facility.
Nana Ofori-Kuragu made the appeal when he posed a question in Parliament to the Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Mr Joseph Yieleh Chireh, asking when the assembly would be provided with offices at Asiwa.
Answering the question, Mr Chireh said the ministry had noted with concern the lack of infrastructure and logistics for the newly created districts.
He said in an effort to address the problem, the ministry conducted an inventory of the infrastructure and staff need of the assemblies, early this year.
Mr Chireh explained that following the exercise, a task team to work out some modalities for resourcing the newly created districts had been set up and expressed the hope that clear guidelines would be available for implementation by the end of the year.
Speaking to the Daily Graphic later, Nana Ofori-Kuragu said a number of projects had been done since he became the MP for the area in 2005.
He stated that a secondary-technical school had been established while a multi-storey dormitory block had been constructed for the school from his share of the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund).
The MP said besides the completion of the Bekwai-Asiwa-Bomfa Junction road which was 50 per cent complete, 12 more communities had been connected to the national grid.
Nana Ofori-Kuragu added that 300 students had been offered scholarships from his share of the District Assemblies’ Common Fund (DACF) while all the 90 communities in the area had received cement or roofing sheets for the maintenance of their school blocks.
He expressed the hope that the provision of an office accommodation for the district assembly would go a long way to strengthen the delivery of services of the staff of the assembly.