Member of Ghanaian parliament for Agona West constituency who doubleb as Minister for Gender Children and Social Protection, Hon Cynthia Mamle Morrison has commissioned boreholes for three communities in her constituency.According to her as part of her twenty (20) boreholes safe water campaign in the Agona west constituency, access to a clean and regular supply of water is very significant in humans life not only does it keep the human body alive y functioning.
According to the Ghanaian legislature, the move has become necessary to address the acute water shortage in the selected communities, the communities which includes Agona Samuel, Upper Bobikuma-Anchiase and Otsekorang have been without water for long time.
The projects was in collaboration with The DirectAid Society, an international Non-Governmental Organization, to help reduce water shortage at the selected communities.
At a ceremony to hand over the projects, Mr Sami Henedak Ahmed, Country Director for DirectAid Society he said, it was their desire to provide boreholes for communities with water problems, because water is life.
He then appealed to the leadership of the Communities to take good care of the facility to prolong it’s life span, he added that the Communities should constitute a committee that will see to the maintenance of the facility.
Residents in the above mentioned Communities expressed their profound gratitude for the timely intervention and emphasized how they were previously left without option but to trek miles to access water from rivers that are fast drying up, with this boreholes,we can have immediate access to potable water with traveling on foot for miles.
In attendance was the MCE for Agona West Hon Justina Marigold Assan, Mr Christopher Arthur, Director of Administration, (Youth Employment Agency) and all constituency Executives of the new patriotic party.
Story by Joseph Cobbina.
