Upper Denkyira East Assembly holds meeting
The Upper Denkyira East Municipal Assembly in the Central Region has held its first ordinary meeting of the third session of the assembly in Dunkwa-on- Offin.
The delayed meeting was caused by the assembly members’ refusal to vote for a presiding member to chair the assembly’s meetings.
Delivering her maiden address, Hon. Emelia Ankomah expressed her utmost heartfelt gratitude and appreciation to all members for the honour done her and His Excellency the President of the Republic of Ghana. She further thanked the assembly members for their wonderful support and absolute demonstration of confidence in her by the 100 per cent confirmation of her nomination for the position of Municipal Chief Executive (MCE). Her address centred on two pertinent issues namely sectoral infrastructural development and rural electrification.
The MCE said she was very much aware of the deplorable state of both major and feeder roads including their town roads and intended to lobby higher authorities to address the situation, and humbly asked for their support, guidance and prayers to succeed.
In the area of health, she said the requisite infrastructure would be provided to serve many more communities even though health sector workers were understandably doing their best in the municipality.
The MCE said she intended to put much premium on pushing education to greater heights in close collaboration with the Municipal Education Directorate.
She revealed that the municipality has been selected to benefit from the Special School Project which, according to her, would be sited at Denkyira Kyekyewere, a suburb of Dunkwa-on- Offin.
Hon. Emelia Ankomah said this project was under the President’s vision of improving access and quality of education through the construction of 200 senior high schools across the country and was indeed proud to announce that the municipality was a among the first 50 districts that had been selected to benefit.
She also claimed that she was reliably informed that at the chiefs of Kyekyewere had made available more than 12 acres of land that was needed for the project.
She said a list of communities, which were yet to be connected to the national grid to enable the people improve upon their standard of living, had been compiled and verified at a recent Regional Co-ordinating Council meeting held on September 25, 2013, requesting assemblies to submit the list of communities without electricity for consideration by the Electricity Company of Ghana and hinted that it was presently with members of the development planning Sub- Committee and was ready for onward submission.
By Richard Asiedu
The writer is the Municipal Information Officer