THE Ghana Manganese Company (GMC) has provided five projects for some communities in the Esuoso Divisional Stool Council which fall in its catchment area in the Tarkwa/Nsuaem Municipality.
The GH¢80,597.48 projects comprising a community centre each at Tarkwa Banso and Jerusalem and a three-unit classroom block at Enyinase are to improve the living condition of the people.
The rest of the projects are a 10-seater water-closet public place of convenience at Tamso and four-unit teachers’ quarters at Akyem to provide conducive accommodation for teachers to enable them to fully utilise contact hours with schoolchildren.
The company has also constructed a bore hole at Nsuta Zongo to provide potable water for the community.
Inaugurating the projects, the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Mrs Christina Kobina, urged people in the beneficiary communities to see the projects as their own and take good care of them to help increase their life span.
She also advised them not to politicise the projects since they belonged to all members of the beneficiary communities.
Mrs Kobina further urged the communities to live peacefully with the company to enable it to contribute meaningfully to their development efforts.
She urged the company to support the youth employment programme by giving on the job training to the youth in its catchment area.
The Human Resource and Administrative Manager of GMC, Mr Wisdom Adjei Mensah, said last year, the company approved seven infrastructure projects, adding that five of them were ready for inauguration while two were ongoing.
He stated that those developments were the result of the peaceful co-existence between the communities and the mine.
Mr Adjei Mensah commended the community leaders and the Esuoso Divisional Stool Council, the umbrella body of the 17 catchment communities for the effort made so far.
The Gyaasehene of the Esuoso Divisional Stool Council, Nana Asare Kojo said since the company started the community assistance project programme about nine years ago, it had contributed meaningfully to the development of the communities in the catchment area.
He said the projects, which had been provided to the communities had become their property so they should ensure their regular maintenance.
The assembly member for Tarkwa Banso, Mr Francis Archer, commended the Ghana Manganese Company for the numerous assistance offered the communities.
He, however, urged the company to continue to ensure that the living conditions of the people were improved.
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