The Kwahu East District Assembly is to execute 20 projects in the various communities at the cost of GH¢ 1,375 to enhance the living standards of the people and provide accommodation to staff of decentralised departments posted to the district.
The projects, awarded to 10 contractors, included a lorry park, a durbar ground and assembly staff bungalows at Abetifi, an area council office at Kwahu Tafo, markets, and bore holes fitted with hand pumps.
Mr Samuel Asamoah, District Chief Executive, made this known when he cut the sod for the commencement of work at a ceremony at Abetifi on Thursday.
He said the projects would be funded from the assembly's share of the Common Fund, donor agencies and the assembly's internally generated fund.
Mr Asamoah said after completion of those projects, an assembly hall and additional staff bungalows would be constructed the following year on a 10-acre land donated to the assembly by the chiefs and elders of Abetifi to
provide permanent office and residential accommodation to the assembly and its staff.
He said area council offices would be constructed in all the eight area councils in the district to strengthen the assembly's sub-structures to enhance the success of the decentralization process.
Mr Asamoah said the projects were initiated by his administration with approval from the assembly and not by the previous administration as was being speculated by his political opponents in the media.
He advised the chiefs and people in the various beneficiary communities to co-operate and give the needed assistance to the contractors to complete the projects on time.
The Krontihene of Abetifi, Nana Anim Ansong, pledged to give the needed support and cooperation to the assembly and the contractors for early completion of the projects.