Yilo Krobo Assembly asked to initiate projects

Members of the Yilo Krobo Municipal Assembly have been asked to initiate community projects to enable the assembly to support them.

The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Mr Andrews Sodah, said the assembly would give priority to communities that initiated projects and would accordingly support such projects.

In that respect, the assembly had partnered Adjikpo, Nkurakan – Asaman and Namosi communities to complete their self-help projects.

“Let me seize this opportunity to encourage the assembly members to collaborate with their electorate to identify and initiate self-help projects as the assembly is poised to support such efforts,” the MCE emphasised.

Mr Sodah gave the advice in a sessional address he delivered at the second ordinary meeting of the fourth session of the fifth Yilo Krobo Municipal Assembly at Somanya.

School infrastructure

The MCE told the members that as a result of the importance the assembly attached to education, a six-unit-two-storey school block with ancillary facilities for Sra Presbyterian Primary School had been awarded on contract. The contractor visited the site and said work would start in the middle of July. He, therefore, entreated members of the Sra community to co-operate with the contractor to do a good job.

Electrification project

The municipal chief executive disclosed that 133 communities in the municipality would soon be connected to the national grid and that the contractor had visited the municipality on two occasions and work had begun in earnest.

Road network

Mr Sodah announced that the Somanya – Djaba and the Kotokoli-DVLA  roads had been awarded on contract and work had started. 

He said pipelines were being re-aligned to ensure that they were laid appropriately to minimise disruptions in the flow of  water.

He said work on the patching of the Huhunya – Tsotsunya road had also begun. He said those roads would facilitate movement of people and goods and also promote local economic development in the municipality.

Assembly’s financial position

On the financial position of the assembly, he said an amount of GH¢ 419,219.30 had been collected from its local sources as of May this year. The figure represented 44.13 per cent of the targeted annual figure of GH¢950,010.00. He said the assembly had also received a total of GH¢ 692,782.08, representing 10.90 per cent of the expected grants of GH¢ 6,356,270.20 for this year.