Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) have been advised to liaise with the Members of Parliament (MPs) in their respective areas to explore innovative avenues to create jobs for their people.

Dr Kingsley Nyarko, MP for Kwadaso, said they have a responsibility to harness the business and economic potentials in their various communities, thereby bringing development to the people.

He said throughout the various town hall meetings with the residents in his constituency, he had observed that unemployment among the youth was one of the critical challenges that needed to be addressed.

Dr Nyarko, speaking at a town hall meeting at Asuoyeboah in the Kwadaso Municipality of the Ashanti Region, said job creation remained one of the solutions to alleviating poverty in the country.

Creating wealth among the people, he said, needed to be on the development agenda of the MMDAs since it was necessary to empower the people to contribute meaningfully to the nation's growth.

The programme, the ninth in the series of town hall meetings organized by the MP, was under the theme, "Building Kwadaso Together".

It was designed to afford the MP and Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Mr Richmond Agyenim Boateng, the opportunity to be abreast of the development challenges facing residents in the area, and how best they could work together to resolve them.

Issues discussed at the meeting ranged from security, job creation, economic to infrastructural development.

Dr Nyarko stressed the need for contractors working on government projects to strive to engage the services of the people in the communities within which they were executing those projects.

The lawmaker took the opportunity to thank the people for voting for him to represent them in parliament and appealed to them to unite and support him in the discharge of his duties.

He also asked them to rally behind the Municipal Assembly in the implementation of their development programmes for their benefit.

As part of the programme, the MP presented quantities of nose masks, hand sanitizers and LED bulbs to the Assembly Member for Asuoyeboah, Mrs Mavis Opoku Afriyie, for distribution to the people in the area.

Dr Nyarko also presented 150W street light bulbs to be fixed in the area to boost security.

The MP said it was important for the community members to decide the projects which were of priority to them for consideration and implementation by the Assembly.

Mr Richmond Agyenim Boateng, the MCE, said the Assembly was planning to establish neighbourhood watch committees in all the communities in the Municipality.

This, he said, would help to complement the efforts of the police in beefing security in the area.

Mr Agyenim Boateng added that the contract on Asuoyeboah market had been awarded and that work to rehabilitate it would commence soon.

Mrs Opoku Afriyie praised the MP for engaging the residents to know the challenges facing them to find the best ways to address them.