{"id":291381,"date":"2017-02-05T16:00:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T16:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=291381"},"modified":"2017-02-05T16:00:49","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T16:00:49","slug":"suhum-adakwah-residents-cry-for-chps-compound-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/02\/suhum-adakwah-residents-cry-for-chps-compound-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Suhum Adakwah residents cry for CHPS compound, school"},"content":{"rendered":"
Residents of Adakwah, a village in the Suhum Municipality of the Eastern Region, have called on government to as a matter of urgency assist them with a CHPS compound, a nursery school, a market shelter among other basic things.<\/p>\n
The cocoa farming community has been deprived of these basic social amenities for over two decades.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n In an interview with Citi News<\/strong>, Mr Bright Awuku ,the unit committee chairman for Adakwah electoral area, said successive governments have failed them, and now the community are in critical need of a clinic.<\/p>\n “We need a lot of things here in Adakwah, we don’t have a hospital or any form of clinic here so we go round the village to search for car to transport pregnant women and the sick to Suhum for treatment, and I must say that it is not easy at all because the road from Adakwah to Suhum too is not motorable at all. During the rainy seasons, movement to and fro comes to a halt since the steep part becomes very slippery.”<\/p>\n He further added that, they have similar challenges in the area of education, “we have an uncompleted building where our kids go to school, they sit in the room and are left to the mercies of scorching sun, rain and reptiles, since the building has not been roofed, classes come to an abrupt end whenever it rains”<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n The traditional leader of Adakwah, Odikro Baffour Ahwere Akrofi, was however full of praise for the Member of Parliament of Suhum Constituency, Hon Fredrick Opare Ansah, who recently honored a campaign promise to provide them with a mechanized borehole to solve their water problem.<\/p>\n He said “we have a lot of needs here from our poor roads, clinic, school, shelter for our market women and even water, until the MP came to construct this borehole for us and we are very grateful to him for keeping to his promise. We go as far into the river densu to fetch water for daily use, and it is very worrisome so we are pleading to the new president to turn his attention to us and come to our aid.”<\/p>\n