As part of efforts to improve the quality of life for residents of Manso Datano, the Amansie South District Assembly has commissioned a toilet facility for the community.
The project, which was initiated by the community and assisted by the Assembly forms part of a trio facility aimed at transforming the Datano community, which is the most populous in Amansie South District.
Commissioning the 30-seater lavatory, Mr. Clement Opoku Gyamfi, District Chief Executive (DCE) for Amansie South, noted that the facility would help improve sanitation in the area.
He revealed that ten lockable shops, which were a few metres away from the lavatory, would be commissioned pretty soon, with the frontage of the shops used for a lorry park.
DCE Gyamfi disclosed that they would clear all the debris and fill the place with gravel, a move, he noted, would ease the disturbances drivers had been meting out to a nearby school.
According to Opoku Gyamfi, the Assembly only assisted Datano to complete the project, so it belonged to the community and not the Assembly.
He disclosed that there were 88 communities in the Amansie South District, and this meant that it would take a while before Datano would get another project from the Assembly, stressing that the projects would go to areas such as Watreso, Wo ni panin a due, Bonsaso, Tontokrom and other communities.
The Amansie South DCE subsequently charged the Water and Sanitation (WATSAN) Committee to take good care of the project, adding that it should be vigilant and use the laws to administer the facility.
This, Opoku Gyamfi said, was why people who patronised the facility had to pay something small, which would be used to maintain it.
The vision of the Amansie South Assembly, according to him, was to use proceeds that are accrued from the project for another, to develop the community.
Opoku Gyamfi disclosed that among the communities in Amansie South, Datano was the most populous, which influences the allocation of projects there.
This criterion, he continued, had led to an upsurge in the consumption of electricity, resulting in power fluctuations.
He assured the residents that the Assembly had engaged the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to come and solve the power challenge once and for all.
On roads in the community, he disclosed that very soon, the Kumpese-Bonsaso stretch would be re-awarded to a contractor, adding that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government had not disappointed the people of Manso.
He said: “We have been able to construct the Agrosum-Kumpese road, which connects to Keniago, Asuade-Agyagekrom, and Akwasiso-Asadea. If we contract the Kumpese to Bonsaso stretch, then that means you will give us 100% in the upcoming 2024 General Elections.”
Mr. Kwame Amponsah, Assembly Member for Datano, who is also the Presiding Member, disclosed that he saw this kind of project at Mmamobi, a community in the Greater Accra Region, and decided to do same in his Electoral Area.
In the middle of the project they were cash-strapped, so they approached the Assembly for support, to continue which it did to completion.
He lauded Clement Opoku Gyamfi, saying ever since he became the DCE, a lot o project had begun in the district, including his electoral area.
“For a century we have not seen such a facility in Datano. It is quite remarkable,” Kwame Amponsah told the function in two dialects.
Nana Danso Poku, Xhairman for the function, who is also the Nkosuohene for Datano, praised the Amansie South Assembly for supporting Datano community to complete the lavatory project, but, however, appealed to the government to expedite the construction on road projects that had been neglected.
