Kwahu
West
District
Assembly
draws
a
three-year
development
plan
Nkawkaw,
Dec.
20,
GNA-The
Kwahu
West
District
Assembly
has
drawn
up a
50
billion
cedis
three-year
medium
term
development
plan.
The
plan
would
guide
the
district
to
implement
a
number
of
projects
and
programmes
under
the
private
sector,
human
resource
development
and
good
governance
programme
of
government
to
enhance
development
of
the
newly
created
district.
The
plan
would
be
funded
from
the
assembly's
share
of
the
District
Assembly's
Common
Fund,
donor
agencies
and
internally
generated
revenue
of
the
assembly.
Addressing
Assembly
Members,
Heads
of
Departments
and
other
stake-
holders
at a
day's
workshop
to
finalize
the
preparation
of
the
plan
at
Nkawkaw,
the
District
Planning
Officer
of
the
Assembly,
Mr
Edward
Nyarko
Oware
said
the
objectives
of
the
plan
was
to
move
the
district
to a
municipal
status
at
the
end
of
the
implementation
period.
The
plan
was
also
to
guide
the
assembly
to
construct
a
district
hospital
with
an
accident
unit
to
cater
for
the
high
number
of
accident
victims
on
the
Accra
-
Kumasi
highway
and
the
construction
of a
solid
and
liquid
waist
processing
plant
to
ensure
environmental
cleanliness
in
the
area.
He
said
effective
programme
have
been
made
under
the
plan
to
modernize
agriculture
which
employed
over
60
percent
of
the
district's
population,
improve
education
and
health
needs
of
the
people,
construct
urban
and
feeder
roads,
improve
water
and
electricity
supply
to
the
various
communities
as
well
as
to
create
employment
to
the
large
number
of
unemployed
youth
in
the
district.
Mr
Oware
said
the
80,000
population
of
Nkawkaw
township
alone
qualified
the
district
to a
municipal
status
but
needed
some
infrastructural
development
which
would
be
carted
for
under
the
medium
term
plan.
He
said
the
plan
was
drawn
by a
planning
team
who
visited
all
the
five
urban
town
and
area
councils
to
sort
the
views
and
needs
of
the
people
in
the
communities
before
coming
out
with
the
plan.
The
District
Co-ordinating
Director,
Mr
Adjei
Boahene
advised
all
assembly
members
and
other
stake
holders
to
contribute
to
ensure
effective
implementation
of
the
plan
to
move
the
district
forward.
He
urged
the
assembly
members
to
co-operate
with
revenue
collectors
to
increase
the
internally
generated
revenue
of
the
assembly
to
implement
the
plan
since
all
the
electoral
areas
will
benefit
from
the
plan
to
improve
the
living
standard
of
the
people.
Mr
Adjei
said
the
medium
term
plan
will
be
presented
to
the
assembly
for
approval
before
implementation.
GNA
