Elubo (W/R), July 23, GNA- The government is to give some border towns a facelift befitting them as main entry points into the country. Elubo, a bustling commercial town in the Jomoro District of the Western Region, is to benefit from a 25 billion cedis project under the Strategic Human Settlement Plan (SHSP), which has the Department of Town and Country Planning and District Assemblies as main stakeholders. Mr Peter Nwanwah, an architect who designed the Elubo facelift plan, said the project would include a market with facilities including a day-care centre, toilets, 140 cluster shops and 190 malls. Land has been acquired for separate lorry parks for passenger and articulated vehicles.

Mr Nwanwah said the project would take two years to complete. Mr Edward Karbo, Director of the Department of Town and Country Planning, who addressed the Jomoro District Assembly as part of his two-day familiarisation tour of the Western Region, mentioned Dzodze in the Volta Region as one of the towns to benefit from the programme. He appealed to district assemblies to assist the department for proper planning of communities to enhance development. Mr Kojo Armah, the District Chief Executive, spoke about problems associated with poor planning in the past and said this had aggravated sanitation problems especially in many fishing communities. ''The problem is so acute at Elubo that the assembly, in collaboration with the district office of the Town and Country Planning and the Regional Co-ordinating Council, has to fast track a programme to give the town a facelift,'' he said.