Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam District benefits from government projects

Mr. Peter Light Koomson, District Chief Executive for Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam in the Central Region, said Government has extended electricity and other Government projects to the area to improve the living conditions of the people.

He stressed that extension of electricity to rural communities had progressed steadily since 2009, and about 28 communities in the district had already been connected to the national electricity grid in 2010.

Mr. Koomson, who announced this at the meet-the-press series in Accra on Tuesday, said: “During the 2008 electioneering campaign, President Mills promised the chiefs and people of the district that he would improve their living standards by providing development projects.

..True to President Mills' promise, the good people of the area have tasted large doses of the Better Ghana Agenda”.

He said work was on-going in 13 communities with only 21 out of 193 communities in the districts without electricity.

Mr. Koomson mentioned Afransi, Babianeha, Nyamebekere, Badukrom, Isaadze, Nkatsim, Ekukrom, Onyaadze, Kyebil and Nsawaadze as some of the beneficiary communities.

He said the current population of the district was 138,046 with a growth rate of 2.5 per cent with five paramount areas; Enyan Denkyira, Ajumako, Enyan Abaasa, Enyan Maim and Breman Essiam.

Mr. Koomson said the district assembly since 2009 had built 126 six-unit classrooms blocks, Kindergartens, 10 Junior High School, three-unit classroom blocks and 14 six-unit Primary Schools classroom blocks.

He said 38 roads were rehabilitated since 2009, and cited that Ajumako-Essuehyia road, Techiman-Eshiem road, Enyan Denkyira Town Roads and Abaasa Town roads, were awarded on contract for bitumen-surfacing early this year.

Mr. Koomson said since 2009, the Assembly had provided 40 communities with boreholes and pipe-borne water.

He said the Assembly was collaborating with the Ghana Water Company to extend pipe-borne water to 12 communities in Asempanyin and Enyan Obontser areas.**