Construction Work To Resume On Odumasi-Badu Road
Construction work is set to resume on the Odumasi to Badu road in the Brong Ahafo region to facilitate the movement of goods and people and to promote business activities along the stretch. This was disclosed by the Member of Parliament for Tain, Hon. Gabriel Osei at a durbar to climax the Badu Fordjour Yam and Bomtuo Festival for the Chiefs and People of Badu on the theme “Promoting Unity, Peace and Development Through Homecoming”. The road which is the shortest link between the regional capital and the Tain District was started under the last NDC administration but has since been abandoned.
The Tain legislature assured the Chiefs and people of the area of government commitment to alleviate their plight through the rolling out of various policy interventions. He added that he was not going to discriminate in the sharing of developmental projects in the District.
On her part, the District Chief Executive for Tain, Hon. Akua Foriwaa Dwomoh said the Assembly was working to upgrade the roads that link the various communities to ensure that farmers are able to cart their produce to the market centres. She mentioned the Badu Seikwa road as one of the roads that will receive the attention of the Assembly. On education, the District Chief Executive appealed to parents to take advantage of government free secondary education policy to send their children to school. She said the District was poised to upgrade facilities at the Badu Senior High Technical School and work at making it a boarding school.
The District Chief Executive further stated that the School will be upgraded to a Polytechnic status to add to the Seikwa Nurses and Midwifery College to enhance access to tertiary education in the District. The District Chief Executive assured the Chief’s and People of the Tain District Assembly’s commitment to build and ICT library which was the subject of fund raising at the durbar. She appealed to the Chiefs and People of the Badu Traditional Area to always ensure peace to enhance development of the area.
In his welcome address, the paramount chief of the Badu Traditional Area, Nana Yiadom Boakye II was full of praise for successive government for their effort at developing the area. He said the Traditional Council was prepared to partner government to develop the area. To this end the Chief added that he has made available a one thousand acre of land for government’s one District-One Factory project. Nana Boakye Yiadom II appealed to government to consider constructing a dam on the Tain River as part of One Village-one Dam project to ensure all year round farming.