MUSLIMS IN BECHEM PRAY TO CELEBRATE EID-UL FITR

Prayers were said at Bechem the Tano South District Capital by the muslims community to end the Ramadan.

 

A CROSS SECTION OF MUSLIMS IN PRAYERS

Celebrating the Eid –ul  fitr, muslims at Bechem converged at the Islamic primary school park to say prayers which was led by the Chief Imam Alhaji Bukari Gariba . Alhaji Gariba said, muslims used the Ramadan Fasting to seek the blessing of Allah and used the occasion to urge muslims especially the youth to be law abiding.

In a speech, the Tano South District Chief Executive, Hon. Bukari Zakari Anaba said, the Tano South District Assembly in collaboration with the Member of Parliament for the consistuency, Hon. Dr. Hanna Louisa Bisiw has been able to mobilize funds totalling five thousand Ghana cedis (GH   5000) to complete the remaining part of the Islamic Junior High School project which he felt when completed would provide a suitable place of teaching and learning for the community.

                                     

THE TANO SOUTH DCE. HON. BUKARI ZAKARI ANABA ADDRESSING THE MUSLIMS

Hon. Anaba advised muslim parents to send their wards to school in order for them to acquire good education to brighten their future since education is the key to success and pleaded with the muslim youth to do away with violent behaviours which they have  been tagged with so that peace would aways prevail in their community.

Hon. Anaba told the gathering that the government has received the Senchi Acord Report prepared by some eminent Ghanaians grouped together to find solutions to the ailing economy of the country and promised that the government would work on it to ensure that the economy is transformed.

Mr. Kingsly Owusu Achiaw (Agaama) who is the manager of Bechem United Football Club entreated the muslims to pray for the team to improve upon their previous performance in the just ended premier league.

   

MR. KINGSLY OWUSU ACHIAW (AGAAMA) DONATES ITEMS TO MUSLIMS

Mr. Owusu Achiaw said, Bechem United placed fifth (5^th) in the last season’s league and said all efforts would be put in place for the team to qualify to play in the top four next season and said the management of the team alone cannot work in isolation to achieve its goals and aspirations and called all and sundry especially philanthropist to support the team in cash and kind for the team to achieve its goals and aspirations.

Mr. Owusu Achiaw later presented four crates of soft drinks and a ceiling fan to the muslim community.

TANO SOUTH DISTRICT CHIEF EXECUTIVE PAYS WORKING VISIT TO COMMUNITIES

The Tano South District Chief Executive, Hon. Bukari Zakari Anaba, accompanied by Heads of various Departments of the Tano South District Assembly has paid a two-week working visit to communities in the District.

Hon. Anthony Opoku, Presiding Member (standing) and other heads of departments

The visits which aimed at interacting with the people and disseminating of government policies and programmes and knowing the problems facing the people saw the D.C.E. and his entourage visiting forty four (44) communities in the District.

At different durbars organised in the various communities the D.C.E. visited, he informed the people that Ghana is at the moment facing some economic challenges due to various factors and mentioned some of the factors as the implementation of the Single Spine Pay Policy, the 2012 election petition at the Supreme Court and Ghana’s attainment of middle income status.

Hon. Anaba said the implementation of the Single Spine Pay Policy has increased the public sector wage bill and for that matter government has to use seventy percent (70%) of its total revenue to pay its workers and the remaining thirty percent (30%) used to finance government projects.

Hon. Anaba explained that Ghana’s attainment of a middle income status meant that grants which the country was receiving from donor countries had been withdrawn and for that reason the government has to finance all project and social intervention programmes which hitherto was been financed with grants.

                                  

Hon. DCE interacting with the people in one of the communities

On the 2012 election petition at the Supreme Court, Hon. Anaba said proceedings at the Supreme Court also affected productivity as most Ghanaians abandoned their work at their various work places to listen to proceedings and spend most of their time watching proceeding at the Court on television.

On social intervention programmes, Hon. Anaba said the government is committed to providing portable water for the rural communities in order to eradicate water borne diseases facing the people,  provide CHIP compounds to rural communities for them to access good health care delivery and urged them to practice good sanitation and also use communal labour to clean their environment to avoid the wide spread of mosquitoes who carry  the malaria parasite so as to avoid the contracting of the malaria disease.

Hon. Anaba informed the people that, the electoral commission would soon embark on a Biometric registration exercise to register Ghanaians who have attained the age eighteen (18) and have not registered to vote. He entreated those people to take advantage of the registration exercise to register so as to be able to vote in the 2016 general elections. He again informed the people that the National Health Insurance Authority is registering children below five (5) years of age and the aged who are seventy (70) years and above free of charge in the District.

    

A cross section of audience at various durbars

On measures to combat the economic challenges facing the country, Hon. Anaba said the government has obtained a one hundred and fifty six million Dollar ($156m) loan facility from the world bank to tackle some of the challenges in the educational sector and again mentioned that government would continue to subsidize the price of fertilizer to enable farmers get access to it at low prices and said the government is also distributing fertilizers free of charge to cocoa farmers whose cocoa farms are twelve (12) years and above of cultivation and is four (4) acres and above and again reminded  the cocoa farmers of the on-going mass cocoa spraying exercise.

The District Chief Executive on behalf of the Member of Parliament for the Tano South Constituency, Hon. Dr. Hanna Louisa Bissiw, presented some exercise books to some primary and junior High Schools in some of the communities he and his entourage visited.

Hon. Anaba presenting the exercise books to heads of some of the beneficiary schools