Abaadze Dominase, (C/R) July 9, GNA - The community based Rural Development Project (CBRDP) initiated by the government to reduce rural poverty is to spend 591,415.50 Ghana Cedis or 5,914,174,484 cedis on 25 projects in the Mfantseman District this year.

Mr. Osman Yakubu, CBRDP Project Coordinator for the Central and Western Zone, announced this at a sod-cutting for five feeder roads in the District at Abaadze Dominase.

He identified the projects as seven feeder roads, five vault chamber toilets, one borehole, three Junior Secondary School (JSS) classroom blocks, two kindergarten blocks, three nurses quarters and four areas council offices.

The ceremony was for the commencement of spot improvement of the Dominase-Kyeakor road and the construction of the Akropong-Kwaakrom, Amissakrom-Nsanfo, Ohenekwaa-Kyeakor and the Oboadze-Pomase feeder roads.

The Coordinator appealed to the contractors, engineers and the District Assembly to ensure that the contracts were executed according to specifications and completed on schedule to ensure "value for money". Mr. Robert Quainoo-Arthur, District Chief Executive (DCE), speaking at the sod cutting said efforts by the government to construct access roads was one of its initiatives to reduce poverty. "Its not only giving out loans for trading that reduces poverty but also include shortening journeys through the provision of access roads to make movement easier and shorter, the DCE stated. Mr. Quainoo-Arthur said apart from CBRDP, the European Union Micro project had also approved 12 projects for the District. He said the Anomabo, Saltpond, and Mankessim town roads were being rehabilitated.

The expressed gratitude to the government for the projects and appealed to the people to rally behind it for the development of the District.

Daasebre Kwebu Ewusie VII, Omanhene of the Abeadze Traditional Area, appealed to the government for an access road to link Achiase to Katakyiase on the Cape Coast-Assin Foso highway to reduce the journey from the area to Foso.

The Omanhene described the National Health Insurance Scheme as the greatest poverty reduction intervention of the government and urged the people to embrace it.