12 LAWRA COMMUNITIES TO GET BOREHOLES (PAGE 20, NOV 6)

TWELVE communities in the Lawra District in the Upper West Region are to benefit from 14 new boreholes under the government’s/Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) priority projects.
The projects, which will be completed before the end of the year, will enable the people to have access to regular supply of good drinking water.
Proposals have also been sent to some international organisations for 13 other communities, including Birifoh, Malba, Berwon, Baakonwgr and Tuopare Tansie to benefit from similar projects.
The District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr Samson Abu, made this known at Lawra when addressing the second meeting of the third ordinary session of the district assembly.
He stated that the assembly would receive GH¢80,000 for the construction of a day care centre and a three-unit classroom block at Kambaa and Tanchara.
Mr Abu said tendering processes for the construction of the classroom projects had reached an advanced stage, and that the contracts would soon be awarded.
He said since the development of educational infrastructure was a major priority of the assembly, it was doing all within its power to meet that goal, stressing that it would continue to support needy students and teacher trainees from the district.
He, however, stated that the selection processes ought to be properly streamlined to ensure that genuinely needy students and teacher trainees were not left out.
“Apart from the common fund which the assembly was allocated GH¢1,275,905.49 as its share for this year, it was also a beneficiary of the construction of classroom blocks and offices, CHPS compounds and KVIP public places of convenience under the District Wide Assistance Project (DWAP),” the DCE stated.
Mr Abu expressed concern about the abysmal revenue generation of the district, and challenged all stakeholders to be up to the task.
He said the generation of more revenue would help the assembly not to rely so much on the District Assemblies’ Common Fund in financing development projects.
The DCE further stressed the need for students being sponsored by the assembly to be roped in as revenue collectors during holidays.
He also called for the establishment of a district revenue task force provided with adequate logistics to monitor the revenue collection.
Mr Abu appealed to people who were yet to register under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to do so, adding that the total number of beneficiaries of the scheme under the Lawra District Mutual Health Insurance Scheme as of September, this year, was 83,325.