Madam Vida Amoako, Assembly Member for the Essaso Electoral Area, in the West Akim Municipal Assembly of the Eastern Region, on Thursday expressed concern about inadequate social facilities to help enhance their standard of living.
Interacting with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at Essaso near Abamkrom, the assembly member regretted that the West Akim District Assembly, now a municipality, had rejected the community in its distribution of social amenities.
She listed priority projects expected to benefit the electoral area as a health post, electrification and good road network as well as educational projects.
Madam Amoako, who expressed concern about poor quality of teaching staff in the two schools in the area, said most of the qualified staff fell reluctant to accept postings to the area, as a result of poor living conditions.
She therefore, appealed to the West Akim Municipal Directorate of the Ghana Education Service, to help assign more trained teachers to the only two schools in the community.
She added that, the schools, one Junior High School and one Basic School were overpopulated, because they served children from the surrounding villages including Kumikrom, Abamkrom, Budu, Amanfrom, and Boyabo.
She said the community lacked proper healthcare facility, adding that, the
only clinic in the area was located at Abamkrom, where sick people from other communities had to walk several kilometres before receiving treatment.