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Kwahu businessmen urged to
develop tourism potential of area
Bokuruwa (E/R), Nov. 28, Ghanadot/GNA - Nana Kofi Kese,
Kwahu West District Chief Executive, has called on business
executives to contribute towards the development of tourism
potentials of the area to generate adequate revenue to
enhance the development of the area.
He named some of the tourism potentials as a five
hundred-foot water falls near Asubone No. 3, which flows for
the first ten months of the year, the Odwenanoma Cave, which
could contain over 1,000 people, the source of River Pra,
the paragliding expedition and many others and urged
business executives to support the development of the
tourism potential of the area by constructing hotels at the
tourist sites.
Nana Kese made the call when he addressed members of the
Kwahu Development Association (KDA) who inspected a number
of on-going road construction projects in the area.
He said the District Assembly had acquire a one mile square
plot of land along the Nkawkaw by-pass for the development
of industrial and hospitality industries and urged them to
acquire parts of the land and invest in those sectors.
The District Chief Executive said Nkawkaw, which was the
gateway to Kwahu would need 2.5 million dollars to solve the
drainage problems and improve sanitation in the town, while
efforts were being made to complete the new lorry park and
construct more town roads to improve the movement of goods
and services in the District.
He led the members of the Association to inspect the
15-kilometre Nkawkaw by-pass road, the six-kilometre
Nkawkaw-Obomeng road, the Aduamoah-Obo, Akwasihu -Suminakese-Hwehwee
and the Abetifi-Pepease-Bokruwa-Kwahu Tafo roads.
In an address after the inspection of the roads, the Vice
President Mr Kwadwo Oduro Gyarteng said the Association was
made up members of the various towns in the Kwahu area and
aimed at promoting development in communities in the
traditional area.
He commended the government for the numerous projects going
on in the area, the creation of a new district and the
elevation of the Kwahu West District to a Municipal status,
which would enhance the development of the area.
GNA
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