TANO SOUTH MUNICIPAL EMBARKS ON TREE PLANTING PROJECT

 

The Head of the Forestry Commission and the Municipal Assembly has urged all to help in planting trees to help in sustaining the environment.

In line with the Green Ghana initiative, the Tano south Municipal Assembly in collaboration with the Forestry Commission are to plant 50,000 trees  in the location covering schools, communities, churches, homes and forest areas to complement the government`s 5million planting of trees across the country under the theme: “let’s go planting”.

Some of the dignitaries planning some of the trees

In her welcome address, Mrs Josephine Biney, the Assistant District Manager for the Forest Service Division-Bechem the Green Ghana project is government initiative to replant trees to replace the depleted forest through the human activities of felling down the trees without replanting for long time. The forestry officers made a remark that the Member of Parliament and government officials` heart bleed whenever heavy rain threatens to fall with storms which roof off people’s houses.

                         

                            The Assistant District Manager for the Forest Service Mrs Josephine Biney giving her welcome address

Speaking at the programme, the Tano South MCE Hon. Collins Offinam Takyi, noted that it is a good initiative to leave the legacy for planting trees, the forestry officers should develop the habit of planting continuously without fail and should not only plant because they are being paid.

                             

The Tano South MCE Hon. Collins Offinam Takyi speaking at the gathering

He said government employed youth in afforestation to plant trees which are very important for human survival and advised that the planted trees should be conserved by continuous watering and maintenance.

 According to him, the benefits derived from trees are quite enormous and sited medicine and clothes as most common examples. He called on all state agencies to liaise with each other and non-state agencies to grow woodlot to prevent encroachment on their land and urge them to water them regularly.

Addressing the gathering, the MP for Tano South, Hon. Benjamin Yeboah Sekyere said the exercise formed part of the government initiative under the Green Ghana Project to help sustain the environment and reiterated the need for Ghanaians to plant more trees for the survival of future generation. He said the environment is changing rapidly due to the destruction of the forest and water bodies through human activities. He ended by saying “when we plant trees, they grow but when we plant gold they do not grow”.

                        

MP for Tano South Hon. Benjamin Yeboah Sekyere addressing the gathering

Nana Awuah – Boadi who represented the Omanhene of Bechem Traditional Council, thanked the government for the good intervention which would go a long way to help the ecosystem and emphasized the need to restore the ecosystem and promised to engage the community members and stakeholders to protect the environment because the country has lost some tree species due to deforestation.    

30 DAYS TO THE CENSUS NIGHT LUNCH IN TANO SOUTH MUNICIPALITY

The Tano South Municipal Assembly like any other Assemblies in the country has Lunched 30 - days to the Census night in the Municipality

Some of the dignitaries and participants at the programme

The launching saw in attendance the MCE for Tano South Municipal, Hon. Collins Offinam Takyi, the District Coordinating Director, Mr. Anthony Owusu-Amoako, the Education Director Mrs. Mabel Botokro, the NCCE Director Madam Czarina Enyo Fiawutso, The Municipal Census Officer Mr. Barnabas Asamoah Boahene, The Municipal Information Officer Mr. Barnie K. Agyeman, Nananom and Assembly Members.

In an opening address, the Municipal Census Officer Mr. Barnabas Asamoah Boahene explained the relevance of the Population and Housing Census to the participants and  urged all and sundry to be cooperative as soon as they are visited by census officials to ensure the success of the programme. According to him, census makes government prepare a comprehensive policy on Ghana’s Development.            

Municipal Census Officer Mr. Barnabas Asamoah Boahene given his welcome address

Mr. Asamoah said, this year's census aim to count persons and structures in the country and also provided update information of on demographic and housing conditions of the population and hinted that the information collected from the census will be used to make decisions about the welfare of Ghanaians.

Speaking at the Programme the Municipal Coordinating Director Mr. Anthony Owusu –Amoako welcomed all participants and thanked them for making time out of their busy schedule to attend the 2021 Population and Housing Census launching.  He indicated that, the population and housing census will provide data on sex, age, birth and deaths, migration, and others

He said the Tano South Municipal  Assembly fully support the Census because it will address the data gaps needed for effective planning of sectoral programmes at the Municipal level and however stated that the said Assembly has earmarked  facilities for keeping the census' logistics.

Municipal Coordinating Director Mr. Anthony Owusu –Amoako Speaking at the Programme

Hon. Collins Offinam Takyi, the MCE for Tano South welcomed all participants and said Ghana could not conduct its sixth census last year due to the emergence of COVID -19 pandemic and however indicated that, census has been conducted severally since 1891 by Ghana.

Hon. Takyi said, Census officials have been competitively recruited and are undergoing comprehensive and skilful training to prepare them for the exercise and reiterated that Field data collection will commence with the listing of all structures from 13th June 2021 whiles the Census night is set for 27th June 2021.

He emphasized that, the enumeration of all persons in residential household facilities as well as institutions and all other persons, will be enumerated from 28th June to 11th July 2021.          

Hon. Collins Offinam Takyi, the MCE for Tano South speaking at the Programme

He said, memorable activities would be organized in the municipality to commemorate the census night and informed all persons not to travel to their hometowns because of the census. He said government continues to be committed to evidence –based decision making and planning in all facets of decision making in our development agenda and the census will provide them with adequate data to help measure, monitor and estimate the extent to which they have made progress in the national development agenda and the data collected will guide them to measure the socio-economic status of the people.

He said this years Census is unique and different from all censuses that Ghana has ever undertaken in several aspects of the exercise and even by the report that will emanate from this national exercise; it will be first fully digital Census to be conducted in Ghana, use of rich geospatial information, use of online dashboards and comprehensive data quality assurance procedures.

He said, the Census will cover all members of the society including the vulnerable and the disadvantage members in the society such as the person living with disabilities (PLWDs) orphanhood and vulnerable children, the elderly and even street families and urge all and sundry both Ghanaian and non Ghanaian who may be resident or non-resident, but may be in the Municipality on the Census Night 27th June 2021 to be ready to welcome Census Officials into their communities and places of residence and provide the necessary information for their enumeration.