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EU to provide 50 million dollars for
Kadjebi-Nkwanta-Bimbila road
Ho, July 10, Ghanadot/GNA - The European Union will provide
50 million dollars for the reconstruction of the
Kadjebi-Nkwanta-Bimbila road.
The project, when completed, will reduce the time spent to
travel between the south and the north of the country, Mr
Kofi Dzamesi, Volta Regional Minister said at a
meet-the-press series in Ho on Thursday.
"I dare say that the Volta Region is getting more resources
by way of road construction than any other region," he said.
He said the Worawora-Dambai section of the Kpando-Dambai
road was also under construction at the cost of GHc60
million.
Mr Dzamesi said GHc20 million would also go into financing
the Sogakope-Akatsi stretch of the Tema-Aflao road.
He said the Sogakope-Adidome-Ho-Fume road was also being
upgraded into a first class highway.
Mr Dzamesi said the total feeder roads coverage stands at
3,213 kilometres, 2,236 kilometres of which had been
engineered.
He said these major road projects were being carried out
alongside the rehabilitation of seven township roads.
Mr Dzamesi appealed to people in the Region to help maintain
the roads by avoiding activities which destroy them, such as
unauthorized speed ramps, washing of vehicles and oil
spillage on the streets.
On health, the Minister said the Guinea Worm Eradication
Programme had been intensified with a community based
surveillance work in all villages in the endemic areas.
He said as a result the Region had recorded zero case of
Guinea Worm for the first half of this year in Nkwanta,
Krachi East, Krachi West, Jasikan and other districts.
Mr Dzamesi said Government was tackling the lack of potable
water for communities in the endemic areas to break the
transmission totally.
He also stated that serious cases of "kwashiorkor" and
marasmus were gradually going down in the Region as a result
of educational programmes being aired on radio stations.
Questions were asked on the disbursement of Micro-financing
and Small Loan Scheme "MASLOC", installation of prepaid
meters in public offices and the state of security in the
Region.
GNA
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