President Akufo-Addo (INSET) opening the court complex
President Akufo-Addo, on Sunday, in the Bono East Region, commissioned a fully furnished dual Court Complex building in Kintampo Municipality and a newly constructed administration block for the Regional Feeder Roads Department at Prang in Pru West.
The contract for the construction of the Court Complex was awarded on April 19, 2019, at a cost of GH¢865,527.01, and was completed in November last year as part of deliberate measures by the Akufo-Addo-led administration to ensure ease of access to law courts, thereby advancing the rule of law in the country.
It will house the Municipal Court and an additional court to be determined by the Chief Justice.
During his State of the Nation Address on March 9, 2021, the President Akufo-Addo said the Ministry of Local Government and the District Assembly Common Fund, had commenced the construction of 90 courts with accompanying accommodation for judges across the country, to help address the problem of inadequate court infrastructure.
Additionally, the President, in April this year, cut the sod for the construction of a permanent, modern Court of Appeal complex in Kumasi, which will help improve the justice delivery system for the northern sector of the country, and through the Ministry of Local Government and the District Assembly Common Fund, 20 townhouses and a guesthouse are being built to be used as permanent residences for Court of Appeal judges based in Kumasi, to enable them to handle cases in the northern parts of the country.
Once completed, it will mean that appeals from Upper West, Upper East, Savannah, North East, Northern, Bono, Bono East, Ahafo, Western North and Ashanti regions will be conveniently heard within a much shorter period.
President Akufo-Addo also commissioned a newly constructed administration block for the Regional Feeder Roads Department at Prang.
It was constructed at a cost of GH¢3,831,826.86 and the completion of the project is in fulfilment of a pledge made by the President to decentralise the siting of state institutions in various parts of the newly created regions, instead of concentrating them in the capitals to accelerate development.