Teachers, nurses refuse postings to Krachi West District
From Samuel Agbewode, Kete-Krachi
The Krachi-West District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr. Moses Kwame Punyah, has expressed concern over the refusal of teachers, nurses, and other government personnel to accept postings to the area.
According to him, this development was impacting rather negatively on the delivery of social services in the area.
According to Mr. Punyah, a number of schools in the district were without teachers, whilst health facilities also lacked the personnel to man them.
The DCE, who made this known to The Chronicle in an exclusive interview at Kete-Krachi, the district capital recently, noted that most of the workers failed to accept postings to the area, due to inadequate accommodation, as well as the bad nature of the roads.
Mr. Punyah continued that once the Assembly had identified the accommodation problem and poor road network as factors that prevent people from accepting postings to the area, it was gradually addressing the problem by building residential accommodation for teachers and nurses in communities that lack the facilities.
He said the Assembly, through its internally generated funds, was building houses for teachers and nurses, whose services the district needed badly.
Efforts would also be made to address the accommodation needs of other category of workers to help provide quality and satisfactory services to the people in the area.
Mr. Punyah explained that since the government had provided road construction equipment to the Assembly, the issue of bad roads in the area had been dealt with, as most of the access roads in the district had seen much improvement, and appealed to the government to facilitate the early provision of the two pontoons at Kete-Krachi and Dambai to complement the existing fairly good roads, for easy movement of goods and services.
He disclosed that the Social Opportunity Project, which is to be implemented in the district, would go a long way to improve on the socio economic lives of the people, and urged teachers, nurses, and other workers, to take advantage of the improved infrastructure in the area, and accept postings there.
Mr. Punyah asked the people to embrace government programmes and polices structured to help improve on their living conditions, noting that a lot more could be achieved, in terms of development, through the District Assembly, if they paid their taxes regularly, to enhance the internally generated fund of the Assembly.
Some of the people who spoke to The Chronicle, and pleaded anonymity, commended the District Assembly for efforts being made to make life a little more comfortable for the people.