WORK TO BEGIN ON DERMA – ASUOSO TRUNK ROAD

A ground breaking ceremony has been held at Derma in the Tano South District of the Bong Ahafo Region for the construction of  the Derma –Asuoso Trunk Road. The project which is part of the government’s policy to improve road infrastructure in cocoa growing areas is being undertaken by a Sunyani Based Road construction Firm, PMC Ltd.

At a durbar held at Derma for the ground breaking ceremony was in attendance, the Honourable Member of Parliament and Deputy Minister for food and agriculture, Hon. Dr. Hannah Louisa Bissiw, the Brong Ahafo Minister, Hon. Eric Opoku, the Deputy Brong Ahafo Minister, Hon. Justice Samuel Adjei, the Tano South District Chief Executive, Hon. Bukari Zakari Anaba, and the District Chief Executives  for Dormaa Municipal and Sunyani West.

Welcoming the people gathered at the ceremony, the Tano South District Chief Executive Hon. Bukari Zakari Anaba said, the ground breaking ceremony would open up the process for the contractor to begin work on the project. He said when work on the project is completed; it will facilitate the transportation of their products  both  cash and food crops to the buying centres and appealed to Nananom and the good people of the area to give all the necessary assistance to the contractor and his men at work.

Addressing the gathering, the Member of Parliament for Tano South Constituency and Deputy Minister of  Food and Agriculture, Hon. Dr. Hannah Louisa Bissiw said, the government has awarded the Derma-Asuoso Road for bitumen surface laying in fulfilment of the promise the NDC government gave during their 2012 electioneering campaign and also catalogued some of the achievements of the NDC government and said, the NDC government has been able to provide many school buildings to replace schools under trees, provision of ICT centres, Poly Clinics, CHPS compounds, provision of electricity to rural areas, scholarship award to needy but brilliant children and other social intervention programmes.

Hon. Dr. Bissiw said, she would organise a free eye-screening excercise in the District to enable all access eye care and also provide public toilets to areas which lack them.

Addressing the gathering, the Brong Ahafo regional Minister, Hon. Eric Opoku, congratulated the Member of Parliament and the District Chief Executive for their good works and the cooperation which has existed between them and Nananom  leading to the peaceful atmospheric condition the District has enjoyed over the years.

He said, since many development projects have been undertaken in the District, it is the collective responsibility of all to take good care of them for the future generation also to come and enjoy their benefits.

Hon. Eric Opoku informed the gathering tha,t maintenance work on the Derma-Asuoso Road will be financed by the auspices of the Ghana Cocoa Board and hinted that government has allocated an amount of GH¢15.6million to finance the Derma-Asuoso project. He said due to the climate change the nation is experiencing, many water bodies has reduced in size and this has also affected electricity supply in the country and has led to the load shedding exercise currently being experienced in the country and hinted that the government is putting measures in place to resolve the situation.

 Nana Krobea Asante II, the Dermahene who chaired the function said in his remarks that, he was grateful to the government for a dream come through and assured that he and his people will do all it takes to help the contractor and his men for the successful completion of the project since the project would also open the Tano South District to the Ashanti Region.