Jasikan, July 2, GNA - The Jasikan District Assembly has earmarked about 800 million cedis for rehabilitation works on four senior government staff quarters which are in ruins as a result of non-maintenance over the years, the District Chief Executive Solomon Kwame Donkor has said.

He said the motive was to revive the maintenance culture, "which seems to be eluding Ghanaians" and to maintain the aesthetic value of such properties to motivate the occupants for hard work to the national developmental goals.

He said Jasikan Demonstration Primary (A/B), Worawora Primary, Kute Roman Catholic Primary (A/B), Tapa Abotoase Primary and Nkonya Ntsumuru E. P. Primary schools were benefiting from the Ghana School Feeding Programme with support from the NEPAD.

Mr Donkor said 351 million cedis has been allocated for the construction of a dining room, store and a concrete platform for water reservoirs, including the substructures and superstructures for the five schools to kick start the project in the district. He said the Assembly had procured three tractors to be sold to prospective farmers at a subsidized cost of 160 million cedis each. The buyers will deposit 80 million cedis and spread the remaining over a three-year period.

Mr Donkor the project was aimed at increasing agriculture production and productivity in the district in line with the President's Special Initiatives.

He commended the Chiefs and people of Buem Nsuta for releasing a total of 200 acres of land as land banks against future agriculture ventures.