The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Bosome Freho District in the Ashanti Region, Charles Appiah Kubi, has called on the central government to help address the infrastructural challenges facing the district.
He mentioned road, health, education and security sectors as the major areas needing urgent attention.
He identified the challenges following engagement with the chiefs and people of the 90 communities constituting the Bosome-Freho District, with Asiwa as its capital.
The district was carved out of the Amansie East district created by a decree of President John Agyekum Kufuor on February 29, 2008.
Speaking in an interview with The Chronicle, the DCE stressed that the road network was vital in the livelihood of the residents, 85 percent of who are dominantly farmers and traders.
However, the district has one of the deplorable road networks in the country with few tarred portions, thus affecting productivity, as farmers experience post-harvest loses.
The DCE mentioned the Juaso-Adansi Bodwesango-Adansi Asokwa-Kumasi/Cape Coast, Asiwa-Bomfa, Asiwa-Asante Bekwai roads as major roads within the district that “need” to be reconstructed to boost economic growth, assuring that the District Assembly in its small way would tackle the feeder roads in the district.
Currently, the district is faced with shortages of teachers because they refuse postings to the district due to lack of accommodation facilities and bad road network.
He said the district can boast of only one secondary school, the Bosome Senior High Technical School, for which reason President Mahama, in his previous administration intended to construct E-block SHS for the district, but his vision could not be realised due to the change of government in 2016.
The DCE, therefore, appealed to the President to construct the E-Block SHS to complement the existing one.
Appiah Kubi also complained of the lack of a District Hospital, stressing that the Health Centre in the district, as well as CHP compounds alone cannot cater for the health needs of the district, hence the need for the Central government to assist in this area.
DCE Appiah Kubi also revealed that though the district has a Police Command at its capital (Asiwa), as well as Police Stations at Nsuaem and Tebeso (yet to be officially commissioned), security is still not adequate due to the sparse nature of the communities within the district.
He disclosed that the Nsuta community has been able to construct a Police Station and appealed to the Ghana Police Service to provide them with personnel to beef up security in the enclave.
The DCE announced that he has established a Foundation to help the youth and less-privileged with good grades to further their education and discourage them from indulging in social vices, such as drug abuse and peer pressure, among others.
“Three individuals have benefitted from the Foundation since its establishment in May, this year”, he said.
From Oswald Pius Freiku, Kumasi
