Mr John Ansu Kumi, the Sunyani Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) has stated the Municipality has received its fair share of the provision of development projects under the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government in the last seven years.
He assured that several on-going projects, including access roads and drainage systems in the Municipality, would be completed for use by August 2024.
The MCE appealed to the electorate to retain the Party in power in the Election 2024.
Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on the sidelines of an inspection visit to some of the project sites in Sunyani, Mr Kumi entreated residents to cooperate with contractors, executing the various development projects in the Municipality.
The MCE inspected the level of work on the 1.4-kilometre access road linking Petra Hotel and Sunyani Estate to the Sunyani Jubilee Park area as well as a three-acre landfill reclamation urban development park in the Municipality.
Construction work on another project, a-500-metre storm drain that would help control flooding in the Municipality was also progressing.
These and other projects including street lighting and pedestrian walkways were all under the Ghana Secondary City Support Project (GSCSP).
The implementation of the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) credit facility project which started in 2019 and spanning a five-year period formed part of the government’s broader urban development and decentralisation programme.
It would help to strengthen local systems and provide the necessary support to the Municipal Assemblies for effective urban management and service delivery.
Mr Kumi explained that the Municipality under the first and second phases of the implementation of the GSCSP benefited from modern street lighting system, pedestrian walkways, and slabbing drains.
The Municipality has benefited from a one-kilometre town road, costing GH¢4 million, stretching through the Social Welfare Department to the Nana Bosoma Central Market and connected to the Sunyani main garage.
“This year is an action year, and everybody would see the beauty of Sunyani, as we complete development projects,” Mr Kumi assured.
He, however, underlined the need for all taxpayers to cooperate with revenue collectors and pay their taxes and rates, saying that would make the Assembly financially-sound to implement realistic programmes for the benefit of the people.
Mr Kumi said with the support of Mr Kwasi Ameyaw-Cheremeh, the Member of Parliament for Sunyani East, every community in the Municipality had also benefited from the provision of development projects, including extension of electricity, potable drinking water as well as education and health projects.
GNA
NOK/LAA
January 4, 2024
Caption: Pictures show Mr Kumi and other assembly officials inspecting the projects
