Anloga woodworkers at Kumasi tour new site

Kumasi, June 6, GNA - Members of the Anloga Carpenters Union on Friday toured the Sokoban Wood Village, which is being constructed to resettle them from their present location at Anloga.

The tour was to afford them the opportunity to see the progress of work at the site and also enable them offer suggestions, which might be necessary for the smooth completion of the project. According to Mr Samuel Logah, Chairman of the Union, the tour was also to orientate the woodworkers towards their movement to the new site. Addressing them, Togbe Mawufe-Ame Fugah, Head of the Anlo Community in Ashanti and Brong Ahafo Regions and patron of the Union, assured the workers that, everything was being done to ensure smooth relocation to the new site.

He said the government had invested heavily in the construction of the Sokoban Wood Village and there was the need for the workers to prepare themselves and relocate when the project was completed.

Togbe Fugah said there was the need for woodworkers to make maximum use of timber products, which were fast depleting in the forest to produce quality work adding that, relocating to the new site would offer them the opportunity to use modern technology to enhance their work. He commended the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, for his personal interest in the product and the contractors, especially Wilkado Limited, which is working on the roofing of the sheds for the excellent work done.

The relocation of the woodworkers, would pave way for the construction of a by-pass at their present settlement.

The project, which started about two years ago, was expected to be completed February this year, but had to be postponed to July this year. A visit by the Ghana News Agency to the site indicated that, most of the high rise concrete slabs had been roofed and painted and the offices completed.

Electricity had also been extended to the site, whilst the major road linking the site to the Guinness factory junction at Kaase, had also been tarred.

However, road works on the inner pavements at the site were ongoing.