Residents task Gomoa East District Assembly to work harder
The Gomoa Nyanyano Development Association (GNDA) has described a news story published in the Daily Graphic on Friday, February 13, 2015 with the headline, “Gomoa East District generates more funds internally”, as not entirely true.
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Members of the association believe that the Gomoa East District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr Isaac Kingsley Ahunu-Armah, was properly apprised of the situation on the ground with regard to the street-naming and property-addressing exercise.
According to the story, the district assembly had improved the lives of the people in the community, following the completion of the street-naming and property-addressing system.
The Vice-Chairman of the association, Mr Daniel Dorkpoh, said apart from the district capital, Gomoa Afransi, no other street had been named in the district and that attaching addresses to properties had not even begun in many areas.
He said the residents intended to embark on a demonstration to voice their grievances and to also make the DCE aware of work that was still pending.
Additionally, Mr Dorkpoh said the Nyanyano-Gomoa Fetteh road which the DCE promised at a general meeting of the assembly to have completed by the middle of last January was still in its old state.
“We will pay our property rates only if development projects in the district are given due attention. We are law-abiding, so do your part and will we play our part,” he added.
The Chairman of the association, Dr Rufia Ahmed, also expressed her worry over the persistent difficulty with access to water that the district faced as well as the lack of basic schools in the area.
She said the whole district had only three basic schools, a situation she described as worrying since there were many children in the district who were not in school.