Offinso Municipal Assembly takes steps to create jobs

The Offinso Municipal Assembly has stepped up its efforts at fighting poverty through carefully planned skills training and job creation activities.

The Municipal Chief Executive, Mr Baafour Kese-Amankwaa, said they have identified job opportunities where people could be assisted to earn money and improve on their economic situation.

These include fruit, vegetables and industrial crops production, aquaculture, fruit wine, metal and waste recycling, glass beads manufacturing and fashion designing.

The assembly would support the trainees with the necessary inputs and credit to set up their businesses.

It would closely monitor the performance of the beneficiaries and see to it that the loans are recovered to help other people, he added.

Mr Kese-Amakwaa told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that this would be done through public-private partnership arrangement.

Reporters of the nation’s wire service had visited the municipality under STAR-Ghana’s media auditing and tracking of development projects, an initiative launched to put a spotlight on how government’s resources were helping to transform the lives of the people, particularly the rural population.

The goal is to aid transparency, promote accountability and good local governance.

He also spoke of plans to upgrade structures and facilities at the Abofour market, given its huge commercial potential, to bring in more revenue to the assembly.

He said it could become the fourth largest primary commodity market in the country.

The MCE noted that, the municipality is blessed with enormous investment opportunities, and that, the assembly would do everything to harness it to lift the people out of poverty.