Mankessim (C/R), Jan 17, GNA - Mankessim, one of the leading market centres in the country, is to benefit from 200 household and 10 public toilets to improve sanitation in the town. The other projects the town would benefit from are eight refuse skips, 1.5 kilometre drainage system, drainage master plan and capacity building o= f the committees responsible for sanitation management.

Training, Research Networking for Development (TREND), a non-governmental organization (NGO), is implementing the project on behalf of Tripartite Partnership Project (TPP) also an NGO. Mr Benedict Tuffour, Urban Planner, TREND, briefed the Ghana News Agency at a meeting with stakeholders at Mankessim to assess progress of work and said the facilities were being funded by TPP, African Water Facility through Tunisia-based African Development Bank, the Netherlands Water Partnership and the Mfantseman Municipal Assembly which is to pay 10 per cent counterpart funding.

Mr Tuffour said bio-gas from waste would be generated from the project= .. He said Huni Valley, Ashiaman and Mankessim were the recipients of the project. Mr Henry Kweku Hayfron, Mfantseman Municipal Chief Executive, said to prevent litigation over payment of compensation on land acquired for projects, the Assembly had decided to make the owners of the parcels of lan= d to produce documents covering them, including indentures to convince them before payment would be made. He said the project was dear to the assembly and urged the implementers to speed up work.

Mr John Etuah, the Desk Officer for the project at the Assembly, and also Municipal Budget Analyst, said the project would make the perennial flooding of parts of the town a thing of the past and appealed to the residents to cooperate with the workers.