Ajumako (C/R) Dec. 28, GNA- The Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam district assembly has so far trained and employed 25 youth under the waste management component of the Youth Employment Programme for waste management and refuse collection. Mr. Kenneth Obempong, the District Chief Executive who disclosed this to GNA on Wednesday at Ajumako, said currently, a number of Aqua Privy and Envro-Loo Toilets and Institutional Latrines have also been constructed for a number of communities and basic schools to improve sanitation in the district.

Mr Obempong said the assembly has also constructed 19 bore holes and seven hand-dug Wells and established the small Town Water System in various communities in the district and appealed to the beneficiaries of the facilities to endeavour to settle their counterpart support fund to enable the project to be completed as planned. On roads, the DCE said the assembly rehabilitated 360-kilometer stretch of roads and that a number of culverts and bailey bridges were also constructed to make the roads in the district motorable. These include the tarring of Mando-Abaasa, Eshiem-Bisease, Kromaim-Mando-Tweikukrom, Abaasa-Nkodwo roads.

The DCE said plans were far advanced to get the rest of communities in the district connected to the national electricity grid and that concrete and wooden low and high tension poles have been supplied under the rural electrification programme, adding that, wiring in some communities have been completed pending connection to the national grid.