ONE thousand eight hundred people from seven communities in Brong Ahafo and some parts of the Northern Region will be affected by the construction of

March 25, 2008
Story: Chris Nunoo, Wechiau
CONTRACTORS working on various projects in the Wa West District of the Upper West Region are disappointing the district, Mr Daniel Dari, the District Chief Executive (DCE), has observed.
He said even though the district had honoured its financial requirements to all the contractors, many of the projects were moving at a snail’s pace.
Mr Dari expressed the concern when he was addressing the second ordinary meeting of the third session of the assembly at Wechiau, the district capital.
He mentioned some of the projects as the drilling of boreholes and the construction of roads in the district, especially the Ga-Wechiau and the Wechiau township roads.
“Any contractor who claims not to have been paid would be telling lies,” the DCE stated, and appealed to the contractors to facilitate work on their respective projects.
Touching on revenue mobilisation, Mr Dari called for co-operation between the people and the revenue collectors in order to improve revenue generation.
He urged members of the assembly to make a critical evaluation of the revenue performance of the district in the past year to check leakage and also explore new avenues to increase the revenue base of the district.
Mr Dari stated that 45 communities in the district which were affected by the floods last year had so far been supplied with various relief items.
He said the distribution of the relief items was still ongoing, and therefore assured the affected communities that they would have their share in due course.
Mr Dari stressed the need for total transformation in the educational sector in the district, adding that more classroom blocks would be constructed.
He said he would ensure that the only senior high school in the district was connected to electricity to enhance the commencement of computer studies, which is compulsory under the new educational reform.
For his part, the Presiding Member of the District Assembly, Mr Karaawo Crispin, urged the assembly members to work harder and come up with decisions which would go a long way to benefit the entire district.