Bredi Number One (B/A) Feb. 11, GNA - The people of Bredi Number One= in the Nkoranza South District have launched a two-year development programme that would include the construction of a police barracks, a hospital, a Senior High School (SHS) and a Community Bank.

The people would organise fund-raising rallies to generate resources and also solicit support from non-resident citizens. Mr. Nick Danso Abeam, a businessman from the royal family, announced this during the celebration of the 93Krufie" yam festival at Bredi Numbe= r One.

Mr. Abeam, who is the President of the African Link Network in Tema, said the police station had been completed and the barracks would be completed soon.

He said the vision of the community to construct the hospital was to make health facility easily accessible to the people and settler farmers in the catchments communities would not have to cover long distances for medical attention.

The Senior High School project will encourage the youth to further their education in their own environment as some parents are not able to send their children to boarding institutions far from their homes. He said the community bank would enable the people, especially the farmers, to cultivate the habit of doing business with banks. The children and family of the late Nana Kwadwo Adjei, founder of Bred= i Number One, founded the Bredi Community about 150 years ago and also starte= d a basic school in the area. The late Okomfo Adjei is said to have managed the school for more than 10 years and paid the teachers' salaries until the school was adopted int= o the public system. The 93Krufie" yam festival of the chiefs and people of the area is celebrated in the third-week of January every year during which period the fetish priest of the Atia Mframa Shrine offer sacrifices of dogs, sheep, cattle, and fowls to the various shrines in the area in appreciation of their care for the people.