The Amansie South District in the Ashanti region continues to make strides in the area of infrastructure development as it seeks to improve the living conditions of the inhabitants.
Made up of 86 communities, the district is making progress in areas such as transport,sanitation and education among others.
At the commissioning of a two-unit kindergarten block at Manso Mim-Domi recently,the District Chief Executive, Mr Clement Opoku Gyamfi urged the residents not to misuse the educational infrastructure that have been given them.
Funded by the Stool Lands Administration, the educational facility consist of two classrooms, two store rooms, a lavatory, teachers’ offices and a water system. The edifice replaces an old dilapidated structure.
He cautioned residents not to turn the newly-constructed facility into a place of convenience where they could attend to nature’s calls and smoking arena among others. He warned that offenders would be dealt with according to the laws of the country, without any mercy.
Mr Yaw Frimpong Addo,the Member of Parliament for Manso Edubia, on his part, noted that the project would support proper education in the area.
He noted that education was dear to the heart of the government, hence the construction of the facility to assist pupils to learn in a conducive environment.
Frimpong Addo, who is also the Deputy Minister for Agriculture told the function that he would provide chairs for the pupils.
The Chief of the Manso Ankama, Nana Kwaantwi Ampoma I, expressed appreciation to the government for the project.
In a related development, Mr.Yaw Frimpong Addo has commissioned a ten-seater disability friendly lavatory facility at Manso Akwasiso.
During the commissioning, Frimpong Addo acknowledged that the project had delayed but attributed the development to financial challenges.He advised the community to take good care of it.
Yaw Frimpong Addo announced that plans were afoot to get the Akwasiso another lavatory facility.
With regard to the extension of electricity to newly developed areas in the community, Frimpong Addo indicated that he had officially informed the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to address the challenge.
He noted that he has been maligned over his inability to get the Akwasiso roads tarred and assured the community that the road had now been awarded on contract and that it would soon be tarred.
On unity and development of the Manso Edubia constituency, Yaw Frimpong Addo, who is affectionately known as Ogunde by his admirers, called for unity between stakeholders to develop Amansie South.
Earlier, DCE Opoku Gyamfi, together with the Ashanti regional head of Stool Lands, Surveyor Franklin Oppong Obiri, rushed to Manso Edubia to inspect an under-construction fire station,which is being built under the auspices of the office of the Stool Lands Administration.
During the inspection, Opoku Gyamfi refuted claims that funds meant for the project had been embezzled.
On his part, Surveyor Franklin Oppong Obiri told the media that construction of the fire station for Amansie South was a laudable project that is being undertaken by his outfit.
He noted that the funds provided for the project had been used and that they will provide another fund when the time was due.
On the source of funds for the project, Oppong Obiri disclosed that the funds emanate from proceeds government take from farmers in the district who pay rent from the lands they farm on.
The mining companies, he continued, also pay for their concessions in a form of mineral royalties,adding that timber merchants are equally part of those whose operational proceeds are used by the Stool Lands Office for such developmental projects.
He told the media that the above-mentioned group of people would appreciate that the fees they had paid had benefitted the people.
According to Oppong Obiri, the fire station and the KG block are not the only projects that are being undertaking, disclosing that there is an oil palm processing factory, which is under construction in the district.
