JUABOSO ASSEMBLY UNDERTAKES MORE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS (PAGE 20)

THE Juaboso District Assembly in the Western Region has embarked on many development projects to improve the living standards of the people in the area.
The projects, which cover education, water and sanitation, roads, markets and electricity, are at various stages of construction.
The district assembly is financing the projects with its share of the District Assemblies Common Fund and other interventions from the HIPC Fund, the European Union, the Japanese International Co-operation Agency (JICA), the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund), DFID, the International Development Agency and the African Development fund (AFD).
The projects include the renovation of doctors’ bungalows at Juaboso at a cost of GH¢41,469 as well as the assembly’s bungalows worth GH¢65,464.00, the construction of a six-unit classroom and other ancillary facilities, each at Kofikrom, Asoredando and Juaboso at a total cost of GH¢255,155.30.
Others are supply of furniture for schools at Juaboso at a contract sum of GH¢73,740 and the construction of a three-unit classroom block at Antobia at a cost of GH¢44,841, construction of a Jubilee Primary School, a kindergarten block and ancillary facilities at Juaboso, the construction of three-unit classroom block and ancillary facilities, each at Africa and Elluibo at a total cost of GH¢73,545.14 and the upgrading of the Juaboso Senior High School, estimated at GH¢600,000.
The rest are the construction of teachers quarters each at Dokukrom, Attaboka, Kwawkrom, Kwasikrom and Yayaso at a total cost of GH¢212,369.65, the construction of a 12-seater aqua privy facility at Bonsu Nkwanta at a cost of GH¢35,448, the construction of market stores at Juaboso at an estimated cost of GH¢335,429 as well as the construction of U-drains and the extension of electricity to the new market at Juaboso at the cost of GH¢26,754.
The assembly decided to extend electricity, being financed by the European Union, to Datano, Agyemandiew and Elluibo, while 17 rural communities in the district will be connected to the national grid under the Self-Help Electrification Project.
Speaking to the Daily Graphic at Juaboso, the District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr Asiedu-Mensah Abrompah, stated that the assembly had provided 16,000 pieces of furniture to basic schools in the district at a cost of GH¢900 million.
He said the assembly had spent also GH¢1.2 million to provide 500 low-tension electric poles to some communities for their electrification projects.
According to Mr Asiedu-Mensah, the mass spraying exercise, the application of fertiliser and the increase in the producer price of cocoa had increased production of the crop in the district, which was the second leading producer in the country.
He said some of the roads in the district, including the one linking Juaboso Nkwanta with Juato, were being tarred.
He stated that six principal communities in the district, namely Attaboka, Denkyemuasie, Patakro, Besease, Manhyia and Eteso would be provided with electricity.
The DCE said any other community that was near the national grid would be connected to the grid.
He said Pro-Net, a non-governmental organisation, had provided 25 hand-dug wells fitted with hand pumps for some communities in the district, while the Ghana Cocoa Board had sunk two solar powered mechanised boreholes for the people of Kwawkrom and Obeng Shed.
Mr Asiedu Mensah said small water systems were also being provided for the people of Bodi, Afari, Bonsu Nkwanta and Amoaya.