CHIEF APPEALS FOR ROAD REHABILITATION (PAGE 20)

THE Chief of Ellenda in the Jomoro District of the Western Region, Nana Kyeku Anyimiah IV, has made an appeal to the Jomoro District Assembly to rehabilitate the road from Tikobo Number 1 to Ellenda, as a matter of urgency, to facilitate the movement of people and haulage of goods and farm produce in the area.
Nana Anyimiah also called on the assembly to provide the Ellenda community with potable water and Public toilets and help complete teachers’ quarters being constructed in the town to solve the accommodation problems facing teachers posted to the town.
Nana Anyimiah made the appeal when the District Chief Executive (DCE) for Jomoro, Mr Martin Yamekeh Ackah, visited Ellenda and New Nzulezo to interact with the people, identify their problems and educate them on government policies and programmes.
He further requested the assembly to extend electricity from Ellenda to Ellenda Wharf to boost economic activities there.
On behalf of the district assembly, Mr Ackah presented a palm oil processing machine, 260 energy-saving bulbs and 150 exercise books to the Ellenda community.
He promised that the assembly would provide the community with their needs as soon as funds became available.
The DCE urged the people to appreciate the numerous development projects the assembly was undertaking in the community, some of which had already been completed, to improve their living conditions.
Mr Ackah mentioned some of the projects as potable water, electricity supply, construction of roads, classroom blocks, teachers quarters, cocoa and market sheds.
At New Nzulezo, the Safohene, Mr John Ackah Ellonye, on behalf of the chiefs and the people, appealed to the Jomoro District Assembly to provide the town with street lights and also extend electricity from the town to the Samenye Barrier, a new settlement where auto mechanics, artisans and other tradesmen were operating.
In another development, the Minister of Energy, Mr Felix Owusu Adjepong, paid a day’s working visit to Half Assini, Mangyea and Effaso to interact with the chiefs and people in the three towns in the Jomoro District.
Most of the interactions centred on the Osagyefo Barge, an electricity generating facility located at Effaso/Mangyea, as well as on the oil find in the region.
The youth of the three towns, especially those from Effaso/Mangyea, where the barge is located, complained that people employed at the site were mostly from outside the catchment area, adding that the few from the two towns who were employed, had been laid off.
The chiefs and the people of Mangyea and Effaso wanted to know from the Energy Minister when electricity would be extended to the two towns.
Mr Owusu Adjepong assured them that they would enjoy power before the end of the year.
He assured them further that revenue from the oil would be well managed to benefit the Jomoro District, the rest of the Western Region and the country at large.
The minister told the youth in the towns that following the discussions he and his team had with the management of the Balkan Energy Company working on the Osagyefo Barge, it was agreed that the youth from the area who had learnt some trade, such as carpentry, masonry, painting would be considered first, ahead of all others, when employing people.