Hon. Maurice Jonas Woode, the District Chief Executive for Akrofuom in the Ashanti Region has urged citizens of Akrofuom living in the diaspora, especially United Kingdom and Ireland, to take advantage of the numerous opportunities Akrofuom presents and invest in the district.
Speaking as a special guest at the official launch of the UK and Ireland branch of the Akrofuom Citizens Association in London, the DCE explained that the Akrofuom District has received its fair share of developmental projects in the area of education, commerce, health, roads and telecommunication and now open for investments.
The DCE assured the Akrofuom indigenes of his commitment to ensure that their investments are protected, assuring that he would liaise with the traditional authorities to ensure that they access litigation free lands for their investments.
DCE Woode disclosed that the District Assembly is in the process of building a modern market to add to the existing 40 lockable stalls and 72 sheds at Akrofuom and promised to reserve some of the shops for residents in the Diaspora, who would want to invest at Akrofuom.
He expressed his profound gratitude to the Akrofuom Citizens Association in the United Kingdom (UK) and Ireland for their tremendous support to the promotion of education, sanitation and health back home in the past three years of the Association’s existence.
He commended the Association for collaborating with their United States of America (USA) counterparts to give a facelift to the Methodist JHS and the Roman Catholic Primary school at Akrofuom.
Nana Abenaa Durowaa I, Queen mother of Akrofuom, Maurice Jonas Woode and Winnifred Bosompim were given certificates of recognition by the Association for their immense contributions to Akrofuom Citizens Association.
Mr. Clement Adjei, the Chairman of the Association lauded the members for their continuous support to the Association and urged them to be good ambassadors of the group to attract new members to join.
He called on UK and Ireland based natives of Akrofuom to join the Association to enable them contribute significantly to the development of Akrofuom.
He disclosed that, the Association also supported Winnifred Bosompim, an indigene who was recently supported by the Association to undergo professional training in health care delivery, to take temperature, BP readings, sugar levels of residents in their homes and durbar grounds.
