The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has embarked on a total of 61 projects which cut across the various sectors, namely Health, Education, Security and Sanitation, among others, over the last four years to date.
The implementation of the said projects and programmes are in line with the guidelines of the National Development Planning Commission towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and the development of Kumasi into a resilient city
In all, there were 16 educational projects, four transport projects, two health projects, seven sanitation projects, five security projects, one recreational project, three governance projects, four economic projects, and 19 road projects.
The Metro Chief Executive of the KMA, Mr. Osei Assibey Antwi, said, while addressing the 1st Ordinary Meeting of the 1st Session of the 8th Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly in Kumasi recently, that most of the above-listed projects had been completed.
He said, however, that there were a few of the projects which are still at different levels of implementation as a result of the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the resultant shortfall in the Assembly’s projected revenue for 2020.
In the area of education, five 3-unit Kindergarten classroom blocks, Eleven 6-unit classroom blocks were constructed, while six-unit classroom blocks rehabilitated, with 136 dual desks supplied to schools in the Kumasi metropolis.
The Assembly, under water and sanitation, constructed a 945m2 reinforced concrete ramp at the Oti sanitary landfill, and 20 mechanised boreholes, and further procured and distributed 370 Veronica buckets for fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
The KMA also rehabilitated and furnished the KMA Circuit Court at Adum, and completed the Nhyiaeso Sub-Metro Office alongside the paving of 900m2 event grounds at Dakwadwom.
The Kumasi Mayor revealed that several educational infrastructure projects in the various Senior High Schools (SHS) in the Metropolis were undertaken by the government through the Ministry of Education, with funding from the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund).
Among these GETFund projects, which, he said, are completed and yet to be commissioned, are the construction of single storey dormitory and a 12-unit classroom block each at the Adventist Senior High, Anglican SHS, Opoku Ware Senior High, Asanteman Senior High (18-unit classroom block).
At the Prempeh College, dormitories, administrative structures, six-unit classroom block and teachers bungalows have been duly rehabilitated under the GETFund.
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