David Kwasi Asare
The District Chief Executive of Ofinso, David Kwasi Asare has indicated that the district assembly will soon put up an administrative block to house the many departments, agencies, institutions and services operating under the assembly.
Mr Asare was speaking during an address he delivered at the first ordinary meeting of the fourth session held at Akomadan Methodist Church premises recently.
He lamented that since the inauguration of the district in 2008 by L.I 1856, the Ofinso North has had its full complement of the various decentralized departments but sadly accommodation has become a problem and as such the agencies, departments, institutions etc have been literally squatting in unacceptable offices.
He said some of the departments are housed in Urban Council offices, palaces and private premises and that cannot be allowed to continue.
According to the DCE, another area of most concern to him was residential accommodation for officers.
He said as a new district, he is aware of the financial and logistic constraints but if the assembly sets its priority right, the construction of the proposed 3-storey multi-complex administration block will not be a problem. In his view, he will like all the departments to work together under one roof so that work at the assembly will go on smoothly.
Mr. Asare also said his administration will lay more emphasis on agriculture so that the government’s ‘Planting for Food and Jobs’ programme will be successful.
To this end, he said the assembly will establish cashew seed nursery sites across the district where the seedlings will be distributed free of charge. He announced to the joy of members of the assembly that as at the time he was addressing the house, the assembly had received 139 bags of maize as hybrid seeds to be distributed to farmers, 350 rice seeds, 750 sachets of tomato seeds, 4,750 bags of fertilizer, 1000 bags of Urea and 2250 bags of Sulphate Ammonia. He said these items will go a long way to help farmers in food production.
FROM Eric Bawah, Ofinso