Jaman North Constituency Receives Its Share Of $1 Million Dollars

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Jaman North constituency in the Brong Ahafo Region, who is also the chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Education in Parliament, Mr. Siaka Stevens has told SPACE FM in Sunyani that his constituency has received its share of the One Million Dollars , One Constituency facility.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the run up to the 2016 general elections promised to make available to every constituency, One Million Dollars every year for development.

The fund, the NPP stated will be part of a poverty alleviation programme in each of the 275 constituencies in the country.

The then Vice Presidential candidate of the party, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia explained that, the programme would be segmented into three, namely, the Northern Development Authority, Middle Belt Development Authority and the Coastal Development Authority.

According to Mr. Siaka, the amount would be channeled into five pragmatic areas of development in the constituency.

He said “part of the amount would be used to construct a new market, expand the existing ones; part of it will be channeled into roads construction in the constituency, establish Cashew Factory in the constituency to employ the unemployed youth in the area, use part to construct Nurses College”

The Jaman North MP said this when he was speaking with the SPACE FM MORNING FLIGHT show host, Kwadwo Owusu Ansah on Thursday.

In utilizing the One Million Dollars per One Constituency, the Chairman of the Select Committee on Education in Parliament assured that “there will be prudent management of the money”.

He indicated that a team of experts from the secretariat has been in the constituency and had consultations with the chiefs and people in his constituent about specific areas the amount would be channeled into, in line with the five pragmatic areas they had chosen.

On the Assembly’s Common Fund, Mr. Siaka said the assembly will use part of it to construct Teachers Bungalows in the district.

As a boarder town with the Ivory Coast, the MP stated that Customs and Immigration officers share a common office, which he said is a treat to security, so the assembly will use part of its Common Fund to construct a separate office for the immigration personnel.