Kpone Katamanso District to benefit from three projects
A ceremony has been held to mark the beginning of work on some projects in the Kpone Katamanso District. The Member of Parliament for the Kpone Katamanso Constituency, Nii Laryea Afotey Agbo, who is also the Volta Regional Minister, jointly cut the sod with the Kpone Mantse, Nii Tetteh Otu II, to symbolise the start of work.
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The projects, estimated at Gh¢338,000, are a 32-shed market and a 10-seater water closet toilet facility, both at Kpone; and a three-unit junior high school at Saki Mlitsa.
The projects are to be financed by the Kpone–Katamanso District Assembly (KKDA), which has budgeted to spend GH¢150,773.17 on the market, GH¢126,811.31 on the three-unit school block and GH¢61,257.78 on the 10-seater toilet facility.
Significance of projects
In a speech, Nii Laryea Agbo said the projects signified the massive development that the government had planned for the district.
Encroachment on school land
He was, however, not happy with the massive encroachment on school lands reserved for the Kpone Senior High School, which has made it difficult to undertake certain projects there.
The Member of Parliament urged the traditional rulers of Kpone to make alternative land available for the school to have certain projects, and warned that encroachment on the land reserved for the three projects would not be countenanced.
Kpone–Tema roads
He further explained that the Kpone-Tema road project had delayed because there was the need to replace a dilapidated bridge on the road. He, therefore, assured the people that very soon the contractor would commence work on the bridge to complete the project. He disclosed that the market and school projects would take four months to complete and the toilet project would be completed in two months.
Warning against subletting of stalls
Nii Otu was grateful for the projects and expressed the need for beneficiaries of the market stalls to operate from the stalls and not sublet them. He cited instances of unofficial transfer of ownership of property and said “land allocated to some natives of Kpone to build houses on have been resold to settlers.”
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