Afigya Kwabre Assembly makes strides
After operating from a rented fuel filling station for seven years, the central administration of the Afigya Kwabre District Assembly has now relocated to its own offices, a testament to the significant strides the assembly is making in its development.
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The new office will, however, provide temporary accommodation for the central administration. Permanent accommodation will be provided upon the completion of a three-storey office the assembly is constructing with funds from the District Assemblies Common Fund.
The assembly has also constructed staff residential facilities to ease the accommodation problems of its officials.
Relief
The new office and residential accommodation come as a huge relief to the assembly, which spent about GH¢20,000 a month on rent payments.
The Afigya Kwabre Assembly was created in 2008, and was beset with many challenges such as lack of office and residential accommodation for officials and seed money.
The District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr Kaakyire Oppong-Kyekyeku, told the Daily Graphic at Kodie last Sunday that the assembly had been able to pick up the pieces and was now making giant strides in its development.
Afigya Kwabre has a population of about 150,000.
Projects
The assembly has completed a new office building for the district education directorate with the support of USAID, while a new residential accommodation for the DCE is also ready for occupancy.
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Mr Oppong-Kyekyeku said the assembly attached so much importance to education and had consequently spread educational infrastructure throughout the communities.
For instance, some communities which did not have basic schools before the creation of the district now have schools.
They are Heman Buoho, Bronkron, Esen-Akosoa, Krobo and Abidjan Nkwanta.
On health, the DCE stated that two health centres had been completed at Aduman and Amponsakrom while nurses quarters and staff accommodation had been completed for the Ahenkro and Boaman health centres, respectively.
Other projects are in the water, security and road sectors.
Mr Oppong-Kyekyeku said 120 boreholes and additional 13 mechanised boreholes had been constructed in various communities by the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA).
About 40 kilometres of roads have been tarred, but the DCE said there was still a lot to be done to bring the road network in the district to standard.
The assembly has built a police station at Kodie for the district command while another station has been completed at Afrancho and Atimatim Trabuo.
Challenges
Because the district is close to Kumasi, most of the people prefer to do their businesses in the Ashanti regional capital, thus depriving the assembly of the needed resources for development.
The DCE said there was also pressure on the assembly to provide social amenities for the increasing population.