Work On Dansoman Roads To Begin This Week
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Ablekuma South, has given the assurance that work on the Dansoman main road is scheduled to commence this week.
Spelling out his achievements at a news conference in Accra Mr Fritz Baffour, however, said that the challenges to bring further development to his constituency requires a collective effort.
He expressed contentment with the development he had brought to the constituency so far.
He said that the constituency, which is the second largest in the country with an estimated voter population of 161,000 in 2008, was confronted with economic, social, environmental, educational and infrastructual challenges with environmental and infrastructual problems being the most dominant.
Mentioning poverty, unemployment, negative cultural practices, poor road and sanitation network as some of the economic, social, and infrastructure problems facing the constituency, the MP said there were various initiatives he had taken to ameliorate the social and economic difficulties his constituents were facing.
He said the first phase of the WoWeti road project had been done with a drainage by PMC Construction, adding
that the Guggisburg extension road from the Mamprobi Methodist Church through the Exhibition roundabout to meet the west link was also under construction with a drainage by the same construction company.
“The Mamponse Infrastructual Development Project is also underway through the facilitation of the MP and the Mayor of Accra,” he said.
On employment opportunities, Mr Baffour said through his office, about 328 people had secured employment in diverse areas; from the informal and formal sectors for junior high school and senior high school graduates, university graduates and people with no educational background.
A number of graduates, he explained, had gained employment in some financial institutions with some senior high school graduates being recruited through the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) while others had gained employment access into some security services.
He said he had allocated GH¢2,000 to a vocational training institute in the constituency to train the youth in catering to enhance their living standard as well as create job opportunities for them.
Turning the spotlight on improving sanitation in the constituency, Mr Baffour stated that clean-up exercises were organised at Korle-Gonno and the St Mary’s Girls Senior High School and its environs and he had also assisted other non-governmental organisations to organise successful clean-up exercises while at the educational level, 35 selected needy, brilliant students from junior high, senior high and the tertiary levels had been awarded scholarship from the district assemblies common fund to the tune of about GH¢8,000.
He said classroom blocks for the Tunga Community Islamic Primary school, has also been rehabilitated.
The MP mentioned the donation of 40 new computers to the St Mary’s Senior High School to promote educational knowledge in ICT, the allocation of 45 outboard motors to the fishing community in the constituency and the grading of roads leading to the School of Hygiene within Korle Bu as well as the Tuesday Market among other completed projects as coming from his own funding and initiatives.