Day: April 10, 2023

The Chiefs and people of Adantia and Kwatre, farming communities in the Sunyani West Municipality, have expressed gratitude to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, for re-shaping the 30.2 kilometre Odumase-Badu road.

According to them, for the past 20 years, successive governments who made several promises failed to re-construct the road, slowing down economic activities in the area.

In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) during a visit to the communities, Obrempong Kwasi Boanu I, the Kyidomhene (chief of crowd) of the Adantia Divisional Council, said the area had equally benefited from President Akufo-Addo’s government.

Work on the reshaping of the road, being executed by the Sunyani-based Alexiboam Company Limited, was steadily progressing.

Tarring work on the seven-kilometre Kwatire-Adantia portion of the stretch had commenced, with works on the prima seal completed.

‘Resumption of work on the road has aroused our trust and confidence in the government.

‘Initially, we thought that the pledge by the President to fix the road was a political rhetoric and gimmicks, but the progress of work on the road is glaring for everybody to see,’ Obrempong Boanu I stated.

He appealed to the Government to also reshape access roads and enhance the drainage systems to help control erosion in the town.

‘Kwatire-Adantia is gradually opening up and we are thankful to the president and his government,’, he added.

According to Nana Kwabena Yeboah, the Chief of Kwatire, work on the re-shaping of the road had made the government popular in the area.

He praised President Akufo-Addo for the level of development brought to the area, saying the Kwatire Poly clinic had also benefited from a doctor’s bungalow and currently have access to potable drinking water.

Nana Yeboah, however, appealed to the Sunyani West Municipal Assembly to construct a fence wall around the bungalow for improved security.

Source: Ghana News Agency

The Women’s Wing of the Islamic Mission Secretariat, has expressed worry about the increasing number of youth at the prisons and advised parents and guardians to take good care of their wards to avoid acts that will send them to prison.

The wing indicated that a greater percentage of inmates at the prisons were those within the productive ages, saying, that trend did not present hope for the nation’s bright future if it continued.

Madam Shaibu Abban, the Organizer of the Group, gave the advice when they presented assorted items to inmates at the Maximum Prisons.

The items, which were acquired through contributions of members, included bags of gari, sugar, rice, boxes of soap and detergents, assorted soft drinks, toilet rolls, bags of sachet water, among others running into hundreds of Ghana Cedis.

The gesture formed part of the Mission’s social responsibility to help the less privileged in society and show love and compassion to make them feel not neglected but part of society.

Madam Abban said alms giving was one of the pillars of Islam, and it increased particularly during the period of Ramadan.

‘Gestures like this will continue. We will continue to pray for the officers here as well as the inmates and hope that they come out reformed,’ she said, while stressing that anyone could go to prison.

She encouraged other religious institutions and individuals to support prisoners as they were more vulnerable.

Deputy Director of Prisons (DDP) Abubakari Abdul Rahman Danf, the Imam, who received the items on behalf of the inmates, expressed profound gratitude to the Ahmadis for the support and kind gesture.

‘We are overwhelmed with your support and donations, particularly in this period where many people are having challenges in their businesses,’ he said.

‘People have a lot, but they do not care, but in your widow’s mite, you have supported your brothers who unfortunately found themselves here, some of whom are also Muslims and fasting. Allah bless you so much,’ he added.

DDP Abban assured that the Service would distribute the items to the beneficiaries.

Source: Ghana News Agency