UNIDO To Assist African Countries Rehabilitate Infrastructure

Tema, Aug 4,-The United Nations industrial development organisation (UNIDO) is to assist some African countries in the sub- region in the building of appropriate infrastructure including roads, sewerage systems, hospitals and utility services. UNIDO will also assist these countries mostly english speaking including Ghana to initiate employment generation activities which will eventually be expected to lead to poverty reduction. Dr Arsene M. Balihut, a UNIDO consultant disclosed this when he was discussing programme for urban industrial development for english- speaking countries in Africa with Nii Armah Ashietey, Tema municipal chief executive in Tema at the weekend. He said UNIDO will help develop capacities in net working in order to implement income generating activities and appropriate infrastructure. Dr Balihut explained that the UNIDO programme consists of assisting those countries to find their needed requirements and so has scheduled a meeting of mayors from the selected cities of which Nii Ashietey from Tema and Lieutenant Colonel Kaku Korsah of Sekondi Takoradi metropolitan assembly will attend on October 14 to 16 in Nairobi, Kenya. He said the mayors from about 26 cities in the sub-region will discuss the projects that they themselves have drawn and how they could be implemented, adding the selected projects should be related to industrial development in those cities.