Nsawam (E/R), Nov 5, GNA - The Akuapem South Municipal Assembly was able to raise over 1.6 billion cedis, representing 70 per cent of their revenue target for the year as at September this year and the Assembly is expected to achieve it's revenue target of 2.3 billion cedis by the end of the year.

This was disclosed by the Municipal Chief Executive, Mr Andrew Nyarku-Adu in his address to the second ordinary meeting of the third session of the Assembly at Nsawam..

He called on the members of the Assembly to educate their electorate to adopt innovations brought to them by the agriculture extension agents to help improve upon their earnings in the Municipality.

Mr Nyarku-Adu said the Canadian International Development Funds (CIDA) sponsored food and agriculture budgetary support project is assisting farmers and groups in the Municipality to undertake a series of off-farm agro-based income generating activities like grasscutter production, cockerel production, poultry and cassava processing into chips for livestock farmers and urged the Assembly member to advised farmers in their areas to take advantage of the project. He said the government is supporting 22 farmers groups and co-operatives in the Municipality to produce planting materials for the MD2 pineapple variety to increase it's production in the area for export.

Mr Nyarku-Adu said the Municipality is one of the beneficiaries of the Millennium challenge Accounts (MCA) which has components for supporting agricultural production and urged the members of the Assembly to sensitise their electorate to take advantage of the supportive interventions under the project.

Mr Nyarku-Adu announced that the government had awarded contract for the resurfacing of the Aburi and Nsawam town roads and the surfacing of Nsawam-Pakro-Adesa-Mangoase Junction road.

He appealed to the members of the Assembly to approve the engagement of the services of Zoomlion, a private waste management company to support the waste management division of the Assembly in the evacuation of solid and liquid waste in the Municipality at the cost of 75 million cedis per a month.

In a welcoming address, the Presiding Member of the Assembly, Mr Justice Kingsley Yeboah urged the members of the Assembly to let their presence be felt in their electoral areas by organising communal labour and other development projects in the locality. He urged the members of the Assembly to use their positions to serve their people and not to enrich themselves. The Chairperson of the Akuapem south Municipal area/Lansing Sister City Commission, Ms Babara Maison commended the Akuampem South Municipality for the improvement in the road network in the Municipality.

She called for more exchange programmes between teachers, departmental heads and other professionals in the Akuapem South Municipality and their counterparts in Lansing, USA. Ms. Maison said this year mark the tenth anniversary of the signing of the Sister/City relations between the Assembly and City of Lansing and therefore presented a citation signed by the Mayor of Lansing to commemorate the anniversary to the Municipal Chief Executive, Mr Nyarku-Adu.