The District Chief Executive of Amansie Central, Emmanuel Dede Appiah, has advised colleague DCEs to focus on development projects to add value to the lives of their people. Dede Appiah, 44, who was elected unopposed at the recent NDC primary to contest the Odotobiri parliamentary slot for the NDC, said it is incumbent on DCEs as political heads in the districts to vigorously embark on development programmes to step up government’s development agenda at the local level.

To this end, the Amansie Central District Assembly which he heads has embarked on a number of projects with the ultimate aim of adding value to the lives of the people in the area of security, health and education.

He told The Chronicle that with funding from the District Development Fund (DDF), the Assembly is nearing the completion of the Construction of three -Unit Classroom Block with Sanitary at Woroworoso and six-Unit Classroom Block with Office and Store at Anyankyerem.

The projects completed under the DDF funding are the construction of Public Health and Family Planning at Atobiase and Tweapease Health Centres respectively. An 8-seater water Closet Toilet facility has also been completed at Pataabo-Jacobu while the Assembly has also embarked on the rehabilitation of the Jacobu District police station from the District Assembly Common Fund (DACF) to beef up security in the District.

The DDF has benefited Numereso, Jacobu and Kronko where the Assembly has constructed 3-Unit Classroom Blocks with Office, Store and Ancillary Facilities for the people.

Oseikrom, Akatakyieso and Mile 15 have also been mooted for DACF Chip Compound projects and a 6-Unit Classroom Blocks with Office, Store and Ancillary Facilities at Bene-ne-Ben. Dede Appiah said the Amansie Central District Assembly has disbursed a GHc120,000 Scholarship package to 50 students to aid students pursue their educational ambitions.

The beneficiaries are students from the Tweapease Senior High School, Afoako ICCES Technical and Vocational school, Bekwai SDA, Nyankomase, University of Education Winneba (UEW-K), Kumasi, University of Cape Coast (UCC), Mampong Technical College of Education (MAMtech) and other leading tertiary institutions in Ghana.
The Assembly also disbursed GHc8,800 to the physically challenged to help them eke out a living.

The Amansie Central District Assembly which is a beneficiary of a $156 million Government’s Senior Education Improvement Programme (SEIP) will spend $3,900 of the amount to renovate the Jacobu Secondary and Technical while an amount of $200,000 will be used to put up classrooms blocks and teachers; bungalows.

The DCE revealed that the SIEP comes with a scholarship package, which will see students earning GHc500.00 each term. The Jacobu Traditional Council has received 100 bags of cement while two other communities including Esreso received 100 packets of roofing sheets.

He disclosed that 50 percent of the communities in the district are hooked to national grid and that 400 metres are to be installed to communities like Kente, Abuawa, Nkoduase, Dokoase, Mile 15, Domeabra, Oseikrom, Kwame Tanokrom, Sesease, Ankaako, Kobo, Nyamebekyere, Fenaso No. 2 and 3, and others to be hooked to the national grid, to enhance economic advances in the area.