Zebilla (U/E), April 22, GNA - The Bawku West District Assembly has launched a programme to construct 40 boreholes at hard-to-reach communities where access to water is difficult. The programme is in fulfilment of the government's commitment to improving livelihoods in the country through the Ghana Sustainable Rural Water and Sanitation Project (SRWSP) to increase access to water for people in rural communities. The launch of the water project was done during the first Ordinary Meeting of the sixth session of the Bawku West District Assembly.

Mr Adam Moro Anabah, the Bawku West District Chief Executive, said in his address that the Assembly had completed some projects and these were done under the District Development Fund (DDF) Projects. These include a Children's Ward at the Zebilla District Hospital, three-unit classroom blocks, store and urinal at Teshie, Tetako and Zebilla Senior High Schools (SHS), boreholes, an abattoir at Sapelliga, supply of 300 Low Tension Poles, the mechanization of borehole and construction of a pump house in Zebilla. He said the assembly was putting up measures this year to acquire a grader to support the government's efforts in opening up roads, and to re-engineer old ones as a way of opening up the distric. Mr Anabah said internally generated fund for the first quarter was about 29,408 Ghana cedis and that the success chalked was through the hard work of the revenue collectors. He appealed to members of the house to help check the indiscriminate and haphazard construction of buildings in some parts of the district to ensure that a proper lay out was done for those areas in order to control and manage the development of the district. Mr. Moses Aduk-Pam, Presiding Member (PM) of the assembly made strong appeals to government to consider the change of name of the district to Kusasi West.