Contractors on projects in the Twifo Hemang Lower Denkyira District have been given one month to resume work or have their contracts terminated and re-awarded.
The warning was given by the District Chief Executive, Mr. Foster Joseph Andoh, in his maiden address to the district assembly at Twifo Praso on Wednesday.
He expressed concern about the delays in the execution of projects in the district including the Hemang and Wawase Small Towns Water Projects under European Union funding.
According to the District Water and Sanitation Team the contractor working on the Small Towns Water System at Mfuom was also working behind schedule.
Mr. Andoh said other contracts that had been delayed or abandoned included a number of schools and road projects.
He said malaria was at the top of the list of top 10 morbidity cases and that the District Health Directorate had developed strategies to combat the high incidence of the disease.
This would include involving traditional birth attendants and community based surveillance volunteers in referring pregnant women for free intermittent preventive treatment.
Mr. Andoh stressed the need to destroy the breeding grounds of mosquitoes responsible for the disease.
He called for a well managed waste disposal in the communities through the periodic organization of communal labour and the adoption of good sanitation practices to block the transmission of common environmental diseases.
The DCE said the district assembly would handover all completed health facilities to the District Health Directorate to make them functional.
These are community based health and planning services compounds at Ayaase Bepobeng, Nuamakrom-Afosaa, Adade-Kofi and Kofokye.
Mr. Andoh said the district had been selected for an important pilot programme aimed at reducing poverty in rural communities.
He said the programme, Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty in 10 communities including Jukwa Krobo, Jukwa Nyameani, Ansamanso, Bukruso, Edugyaa and Twifo Pawodie, where 250 households would be targeted.
The criteria for the selection include people aged 65 years and above without sustainable livelihoods, care givers of orphans and the vulnerable, persons with severe disability and blindness for remittances ranging between GHc8.00 to GHc15.00 will be given every month.
Under the second programme, the Ministry of Manpower and Social Welfare is to support the assembly to withdraw 100 children from child labour in the cocoa crowing areas and supported in psycho-social counselling, enrolment and social protection assistance in the form of school kits such as uniforms foot wear, school bags while those who wish to learn trades shall be supported through apprentices training.
Mr. Andoh said the administrator of the district assemblies common fund had increased the district's share from GHC1,261,894.53 in 2008 to GHc1,708,394,58 and said out of the expected revenue of GHc293,475.00 for this year the assembly had collected GHc106.501.89 as against an expenditure GHc102,536.44 leaving a surplus of GHc3,915.45 as at May 31.
The assembly had earlier elected Mr. Michael Kweku Adovolo as the presiding member.