Ghanaians living abroad have been urged to assist in accelerating the pace of development in their home towns.

Nana Kwarteng Karikari III, chief of Akyem Awisa in the Birim South District who made the call noted that, gone were the days when Ghanaians looked up to the Central Government to provide them with all their needs.

Nana Karikari was speaking at a grand durbar at Akyem Awisa on Monday during the installation of Mr. Samuel Nuako Appiah-Kubi as the Akyem Awisa Amanonehene (or Foreign Minister) under the stool name Nana Kwadwo Nuako Oppong Kwakye.

He commended the newly installed Amanonehene who is based in Sweden for bringing a number of development projects to the area.

He urged the Amanonehene not to relent in his efforts but to mobilize Awisa citizens abroad to bring more development not to the town alone but to the District and Ghana as a whole.

Nana Kwakye for his part commended the chiefs for the honour done him and promised to live up to expectation. He called for unity among the people, saying it was a prerequisite for development.

He enumerated some of the development projects he had brought to the area so far to include the construction of the Akyem Apaaso Salvation Kindergarten (KG) Primary and Junior High School (SHS) and the construction of two classroom blocks, office and a store at the Akyem Asawase KG Methodist School.

Others were the conversion of Akyem Asawase Methodist Primary School dwarf wall into a modern block and the construction of a Vocational School at Akyem Apaaso.

Nana Kwakye also announced his intention to turn the former Akyem Awisa Post Office into an Information Communication Technology (ICT) centre.

Meanwhile, Nana Kwakye on Tuesday donated 250 pieces of School uniforms to some brilliant but needy pupils at Akyem Asawase and Awisa Methodist KG.

Mr. Kwesi Ahenkorah Anti, an opinion leader at Awisa who received the items on behalf of the schools, commended the Amanonehene for the gesture.**