Elubo-Cocoa Town-Ghana Nungua road

April 16 (page 20)
Story: Kwame Asiedu Marfo, Ebonloa
APPROVAL has been given for the reconstruction and tarring of the 11-kilometre Elubo-Cocoa Town-Ghana Nungua road in the Jomoro District of the Western Region.
Cocoa Town, Ghana Nungua, Fante Newtown and Ahwiafutu are also among a number of communities in the district to be connected to the national electricity grid this year.
The Jomoro District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr Martin Yamekeh Ackah, announced this when he interacted with chiefs and people of Cocoa Town, Ghana Nungua, Ebonloa and Bawia at separate meetings to sensitise them to some of the government and the district assembly’s policies and programmes.
He said the district assembly had provided Cocoa Town with a cocoa shed, a school block, furniture, public place of convinience potable water as well as exercise books for the District Council (DC) Junior High School pupils, while Ghana Nungua had been provided with teachers’ quarters, public place of convinience and a cocoa shed.
Mr Ackah added that the Capitation Grant was introduced by the government to absorb school fees, as well as culture, entertainment, examination, sports and other fees, which were being paid by the parents, thereby relieving them of some of their economic hardships.
The DCE stated that the School Feeding Programme had also helped to increase enrolment in schools and given pupils a balanced diet while in school.
The National Health Insurance Scheme, he explained, had come to replace the cash and carry system of the previous government, adding that it was meant to make health delivery more affordable to Ghanaians, especially the poor.
On the National Youth Employment Programme, Mr Ackah said, the realisation of the importance of the human resource needs of Ghana and the need to create job opportunities for Ghanaians and the youth in particular, led to its introduction by the government.
“It also offers the requisite working experience to post national service graduates from any tertiary institution,” he stated, adding that about 400 youth in the district had been employed under the programme.
Mr Ackah assured the communities of the government’s readiness to construct dams on the Tano River in the Jomoro District and Pra and Ankobra rivers in the Nzema East District, all in the Western Region.