Banda District Assembly initiates projects

The Banda District Assembly in the Brong Ahafo Region, one of the districts  created in 2012, with its capital being Banda Ahenkro,  is to embark on a number of development projects by way of prosecuting the development agenda of the district to enhance the living conditions of the people.

The district,  which was carved out of the Tain District,  is described as one of the most  deprived districts in the country.  

The Assembly is making giant strides towards the development of the district in the areas of education, potable water, electricity and roads among others.

In terms of educational infrastructure, the assembly has completed a three-unit classroom block at Dorbor, Bofie, Dompofie and owns teacher quarters at Banda Ahenkro which it inherited from its mother district, the Tain District. 

The assembly has also benefitted from a six-unit classroom block from the Ghana Education Trust Fund ( GETFund) for the Banda Boase Local Authority (L/A) Primary School, while the Bandaman Senior High School ( SHS) is to be given a major facelift with the construction of a two-storey 18-classroom block also funded by GETFund.

Work is also going on on  a four-unit classroom pavilion, a headmaster's bungalow and a two-unit semi-detached teacher's bungalow, all at the Bandaman SHS and  funded from the District Assemblies Common Fund (DACF).

Six communities are benefitting from the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty Programme (LEAP), while 15 schools are also benefitting from the school feeding programme.

Through the instrumentality of the Member of Parliament (MP) for the area, Mr Ahmed Ibrahim, the assembly  has benefitted from an International Development Agency's funded Small Town Water project at Sabiye and four boreholes from the same funding source under the Rural Water and Sanitation Programme. The district,  over the last one year,  has mechanised five boreholes, while eight boreholes have been drilled.

To attract the needed human resource to the young and dominantly rural district, the assembly is working at providing both office and residential accommodation for critical staff members of the assembly and decentralised departments.

The District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr Alexander Bonsu, has appealed to the central government and development partners to  support in the construction of a district hospital,  dormitory block for the Bandaman SHS,  extension of electricity, road  and the development of the untapped tourism potential at the Bui National Park, which contains the highest number of hippopotamus in the West African sub-region and the historical mountain caves.