President John Mahama is trumpeting his achievements in the Eastern Region as he commenced the second leg of his “Accounting to the People” Tour on Tuesday.
According to the President who met with chiefs and opinion leaders, his government has invested massively in social infrastructure and Ghanaians will soon enjoy from those investments, despite the economic challenges.
Road construction
Speaking at Akwamufie on Tuesday, President Maham said “we are working on several of the roads in this area like the Akuse-Okpenya road, Ashietey town road, we are working on the road from Liberty to Kpono valley, Lasi to Abom, Trom to Kpone, we are also working on the town roads in both Odumasi and in Somanya. I’m going to ask the contractor to speed up work.”
On the roads from Somanya to Kpone, the President said the contractor is working on a diversion of the road in order to work on the main bridge to pave way for the major road project to commence.
Water expansion
President Mahama said his government is also ensuring that areas that were deprived of potable water are connected.
“In the past, when the water projects were done, they were not connected to the surrounding towns so they didn’t benefit from the water project. But under the current expansion we did at the Kpone water station, we made sure that all the surrounding communities also benefit from the water.”
School projects
He also said his government is constructing a number of school projects in the Easter Region.
“We are building a new assembly complex for the Krobo girls. We are doing a new community day senior high school in Obofa, we are working on a two-storey girls dormitory at Akro SHS, we are working on a three-storey dormitory block for boys at the Manya Krobo senior high school and we are doing several classroom blocks at Agormenya Methodist school. Recently, we approved in Parliament two rural electrification projects and work is going to start in August. We have the legislation for the Eastern University currently before Parliament and that Eastern University is located here in Krobo land.”
Accounting to the People tour
The Accounting to the People tour is government’s initiative to enable President Mahama account to the people for his stewardship ahead of the elections in November.
The Eastern Regional tour follows a similar one in the Western Region last week.
President Mahama while in the Eastern Region, will pay courtesy calls on chiefs, interact with traders and residents of various communities and inspect on-going projects.
The President will also use the three-day tour to elicit feedback and inaugurate new projects including a ferry at Agordeke in Afram Plains.
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By: Godwin A. Allotey/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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