Chief calls for measures to save lives at Osino

Osino(E/R), July 3, GNA- The chief of Osino, Osabarima Osampanin, 11, has appealed to the Ghana Highway Authority to provide ramble stripes on the Accra-Kumasi portion of the town to save loss of innocent lives. According to him, about 40 persons from the town have been killed in motor accidents due to the over-speeding of vehicles on the highway with 10 of such deaths recorded within a year now.

Osabarima Osampanin made the appeal during a courtesy call on him on Wednesday by the Member of Parliament (MP) for Fanteakwa, Mr. Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, as part of his tour of the constituents who are celebrating their annual "Ohum kan" festival. He complained that the frequent motor accidents had prevented his people, especially women, from engaging in trade activities near the road, which had been their source of livelihood. Mr Ofosu-Ampofo, who also visited Juaso, Samang and Petepong, urged the chiefs and people of the constituency to eschew petty differences and litigation in order to help develop their communities and the nation. He urged parents not to shirk their responsibility towards their children's education but rather encourage and support them with their needs to enable them to benefit from the government's policy of equal education in the country.

The MP told them that the government had asked scholarship funds for brilliant but needy students especially girl-child. Mr Ofosu-Ampofo promised the community a donation of cement and sand to help them construct new school buildings and teachers bungalows and three million cedis towards the construction of their primary and JSS projects under the Quality Improvement of Primary School(QUIPS). At Akim-Juaso, the chief, Barima Nana Osei, appealed to the MP to help the community provide educational infrastructure to promote quality education in the area.

At Samang, the Kontihene, Baafour Opoku Gyamena, appealed to the MP to promote the rehabilitation of their streets and provision of market and KVIP toilet. At Petepong, Mr. Ofosu-Ampofo donated a bale of secondhand clothing and a napsack sprayer worth 1.2 two million cedis to the community The Odikro of Petepong, Siipim Tawiah Nartey, who received the donation commended the MP and appealed for solar panels, bore-holes and the construction of a bridge over a nearby river, which he said, over-flows its banks during rainy seasons, thus preventing children from attending school.