Togbega Gabusu VI (2nd right), paramount chief of Gbi Traditional Area, cutting the tape to inaugurate the school. Those with him include Mr Peter Ayabila (right), Chief Engineer of the Hohoe Municipal Assembly, and Hon. Dr Margaret Kweku (2nd left), Hohoe Municipal Chief Executive.

Hohoe receives facelift

Daily Graphic Jan - 31 - 2015 , 11:51

The Hohoe Municipality of the Volta Region has had 33 development projects executed in the urban area during last year alone. The projects were aimed at bringing about improvement in the living standards of residents.

The projects covered education, health, sanitation and roadworks.

A number of the projects have been completed and handed over to the assembly. The completed projects include a three-unit classroom block with an office and a staff common room, a four-seater public place of convenience, and a two-unit urinal at Lolobi Kumasi.

Other projects are a two-unit classroom block put up for an early childhood development centre; places of convenience for the Hohoe Experimental and Musama Primary schools; a wall round the Hohoe Midwifery Training School with a security room and gate; traffic lights in Hohoe; drains and culverts for six communities; and mechanised boreholes for 20 communities in the metropolis.

Projects being worked on include tarring of some town roads, construction of new school blocks, sanitation facilities, an Information and Communications Technology (ICT) centre, bungalows for doctors and mechanised boreholes for 15 other neighbourhoods.

The projects were funded from the District Assemblies Common Fund and the Urban Development Grant.

The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Hohoe Municipality, Dr Margaret Kweku, last Monday officially handed over the completed projects to the members of the beneficiary communities.

She said the projects were made possible due to government's determination to ensure that the people were provided with basic necessities of life.

"Education, water and sanitation are being tackled, not because the other sectors are less important, but because we are working within the overall policy directive of the central government and also because they are the driving force to socio-economic development of the country," she said.

She urged neighbourhoods that had received new projects to find ways of maintaining the facilities to ensure that they last.

The Paramount Chief of the Gbi Traditional Area, Togbega Gabusu VI, expressed gratitude to the government for extending development to the area.

He asked the people to give the needed support to the authorities as they sought to promote development.