Ho, Jan. 11, GNA - A total of 17 billion cedis was spent on various road projects in the Ho Municipality in 2006 with 30 billion cedis earmarked for the sector this year. The Ho-Fume road has also been awarded on contract at a cost of 99 billion cedis with 29 billion cedis going into the re-surfacing of the Ho-Nyive road this year.

Mr Mawutor Goh, Ho Municipal Chief Executive, announced these at the first ordinary meeting of the fifth session of the Assembly in Ho on Thursday.

He said work would continue on a number of feeder roads in the municipal area this year some of which would be tarred. Mr Goh said preparatory works were almost complete for the implementation of the European Union Micro projects in the Ho municipality at a cost of 1.2 billion cedis with the Assembly taking up 25 percent of the cost.

He told the Assembly members that this year would be challenging, in view of it being a jubilee year and also because it was the penultimate year to the 2008 election.

In a welcoming address, Mr Leonard Kokorokoh, Presiding Member, urged the members to help make positive differences "in the lives of our people this year".

He urged them to tolerate each other's views consult among themselves so as to ease the pressure on the Municipal Chief Executive. Mr Kokorokoh said in view of the unwillingness of people to seek membership of the Unit Committees, the Assembly members should liaise with chiefs and opinion leaders to constitute such committees pending directives from the Electoral Commission.

Meanwhile, the Assembly has adopted a resolution abrogating any agreements with its tenants in the Central Market in view of the abuse of such tenancy agreements including alleged sub-letting of stalls and stores by those tenants far above the rent they paid to the Assembly.