The provision of the government’s one million dollars per constituency programme is proving as a timely intervention for the Asuogyaman district assembly in the Eastern region following the assembly’s reception of the 2017 and 2018 tranches of the allocation.

District Chief Executive for Asuogyaman, Samuel Kwame Agyekum who announced this when he took his turn at the district’s first ever ‘meet the press’ series at the assembly hall on Friday said following an assessment and priorities of the district, it came to light that a greater percentage of the communities in the district needed proper place of convenience and good portable water.

A number of boreholes had therefore been sank in the district, funded by the $ 2 million received over the last two years to complement the implementation of the district.

The DCE as part of the presser delivered a detailed account of the quest of the Asuogyaman district assembly to promote the activities of the district and government through participatory governance, transparency and accountability aimed at disseminating government’s information through development communication to engage key stakeholders in order to receive feedback to stir the confidence in the government to improve and sustain the development Agenda.

While the assembly has successfully completed a wide range of projects including educational infrastructure such as classrooms and teachers’ bungalows, water projects and toilet facilities, the construction of much more, largely in the above categories, remain ongoing.

The Asuogyaman District Assembly, as a result of its efforts and support from well-meaning citizens from the district, has been working tirelessly since 2017 to get its major roads reconstructed.

With the road network from Marine through Adumasa, Gyakiti and Anyaase and Osebeng through Anum and Boso currently under construction and the processes for the construction of others including Apeguso to Mpakadan, Adomi Bridge to Asikuma, Anyase to Kudikope, the assembly chief is convinced that Asuogyaman would have the best road network in the country by the end of his tenure.

On education, Mr. Agyekum disclosed that the assembly, aside reviving the activities of the District Education Observer Committee (DEOC) after 7 years of dormancy, also improved the general performance of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) from 67.9% in 2017 to 73.1% in the 2018 academic year with a regional ranking also improving from its 17th position in 2017 to 10th position in 2018.

Other areas the DCE touched on included security, financial performance, support to community, collaboration with development partners, decentralization of scholarship application service, government flagship programmes, social intervention programmes, youth development programmes, priority areas for 2020 and the upcoming district level elections and referendum.

District Coordinating Director for Asuogyaman, Mr. Joshua Kwabla, Heads of Departments of the assembly and various media houses including print, TV, radio and online portals were present at the event.