NSUTA CONSTRUCTS MODERN COMMUNITY CENTRE (PAGE 42, APRIL 22, 2010)

THE people of Nsuta in the Sekyere Central District in the Ashanti Region are constructing a multi-purpose community centre estimated at GH¢500,000.
Already, GH¢140,000 has been spent on the 1,200-seat capacity project being sited on a 10-acre piece of land.
The community has moulded 12,000 blocks for the project. The project is at the casting stage.
An Easter fund-raising rally for the five-year project started in 2007 yielded GH¢201,000.
Briefing the people of Nsuta at the Easter fund-raising rally, the secretary to a 12-member Nsutaman Building Committee Mr Kwabena Owusu, said the foundation of the building had been constructed and filled.
He said the committee had also bought one tonne of iron rods.
Mr Owusu, who is the Assembly member for the Palace Electoral Area at Nsuta, appealed to the people to contribute generously to ensure the early completion of the project.
The paramount chief of the Nsuta Traditional Area, Nana Adu Agyei Bonsafo, said the large gathering of the people at the function was an indication of the peace and unity prevailing in the area.
He stated that successive governments had set agriculture as the priority sector and called on the people, particularly the youth, to go into that venture.
Nana Bonsafo also urged parents to enrol their children in school to ensure their orderly development.
The Sekyere Central District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr Ebenezer Akuoko Frimpong, said unity and peace were vital in every development process.
He was happy that the people in the area were not waiting for the government to provide them with their social amenities but had initiated such development projects on their own.
Mr Frimpong said the government would not disappoint the people, stressing that it would continue to ensure the social transformation of the rural areas.
He said the Sekyere Central District Assembly would construct its permanent administration block, a bungalow for the DCE and other officials and also complete the Nsuta market.
Mr Frimpong advised the people to register with the National Identification Authority for their national identity cards.
The Member of Parliament for Nsuta-Kwamang-Beposo, Mr Kwame Osei-Prempeh, said it was the people’s civic responsibility to help develop their respective areas.
He stated that the construction of the community centre was a big project which would help raise the image of the town.
He implored the people to provide communal labour to reduce the cost of the project, adding that it was a civic responsibility for all Ghanaians to take part in communal labour.
The MP said he would use part of his share of the Common Fund to rehabilitate the Nsuta court building and provide a laboratory for the Nsutaman Polyclinic.
He said between now and 2012, he would ensure the improvement of academic performance of schools in the constituency.