Navrongo (UE), Feb. 17, GNA- The Kassena Nankana East District Chief Executive, Mr. Emmanuel Andema, on Tuesday said his administration has embarked on a million cedi development projects package to boost the existing infrastructure in the area. He said the assembly considered critical areas like education, health and sanitation where it spent about to start various projects most of which are near completion.

In an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Navrongo, Mr Andema said the projects include seven set of three-unit classroom blocks dotted throughout the district, and funded by the European Union (EU) under the District Wide Assistant Project (DWAP) and the construction of a rehabilitation Centre for people with Disabilities (PWDs). Other infrastructure included facelift for the health sector where it added a number of Community Health Based Planning Services (CHPS) Compounds to far-to-reach areas as a measure to get healthcare services to the doorsteps of rural people.

He said the development projects were part of the assembly's plans to make life comfortable for the people in the area. Mr. Andema indicated that these projects were part of government efforts to provide quality life for the people, and said the assembly is working around the clock to ensure that a number of communities are connected to the national grid. The DCE further indicated that there was the need to get good access roads in the district and said some selected roads in the area are under rehabilitation.

Mr. Andema said the assembly has voted 22,000 Ghana Cedis for the re-gravelling of the Navrongo main Lorry Park to give some comfort to travellers and commercial vehicle operators. The DCE noted that the assembly was collaborating with development partners such as the Calabash Foundation, a non-governmental organization, working to provide potable water to deprived communities in the district. He said the NGO had provided two mechanized boreholes to the Manyoro and the Akurugu Dabore communities and expressed the assembly's gratitude to management of the NGO.

The DCE called for the support and cooperation of the various communities as the assembly endeavours to provide them with development projects. He tasked the community members in the district to activate their communal spirit to enable them undertake self initiated projects for the betterment of the area, "in so doing the assembly could come out to help," he added. Mr. Andema said with support from some developmental partners, the assembly sponsored girls to continue their education in Junior and Senior High Schools as it view the education of the girl-child as a priority.