The Ashanti and Japanese Areaal Coordinating Councils (RCCs) have distributed highway enchancment gear to their respective assemblies (MMDA) in step with the District Highway Enchancment Undertaking (DRIP).
This initiative, launched by the President, goals to reinforce highway infrastructure throughout the area, thereby growing accessibility, fostering financial development, creating employment alternatives, and enhancing the livelihoods of residents.
The Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei-Mensah, warned Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) towards misusing gear, particularly for actions resembling unlawful mining.
“Wherever you are taking them, you may be uncovered and held accountin a position,” he mentioned on the handing over of the DRIP machines.
A complete of 435 varied items of kit, together with backhoes, tipper vans, motor graders, tractors, and water tankers had been distributed to districts throughout the area.
Mr Osei- Mensah urged the MMDCEs to make use of the gear responsibly to spice up the area’s competitiveness, and enhance employment, noting that native artisans would deal with the gear repairs.
He expressed gratitude to JA Plant Pool and the Jospong Group for his or her collaboration on the undertaking.
The MCE of the Kumasi Metropolitan Meeting, Mr Samuel Pyne, counseled the federal government for its efforts to enhance highway networks within the nation.
The Chief of Asante Asiakwa and Chairman of the event, Obrempong Asiakwa Agyeman Agyei, expressed appreciation for the undertaking and urged district leaders to make sure the efficient use of the gear supplied.
He known as for strict supervision as a way to make sure the gear’s environment friendly use, and underscored the undertaking’s significance in reworking the Ashanti Area’s highway community.
“Right this moment marks a big occasion within the transformation of our highway community,” he pressured, praising the efforts of the regional minister and the federal government.
In an interview, the New Patriotic Social gathering’s Parliamentary Candidate for Sekyere Afram Plains, George Akom, indicated that the DRIP undertaking aligns with the federal government’s dedication to enhancing highway infrastructure and selling economic growth in rural areas.
The Human Useful resource Supervisor of the Jospong Group, Ms Ruth Juwena Bentie, acknowledged that the group would additionally guarantee strict supervision and upkeep of the gear to enhance the area’s infrastructure and financial system.
In Koforidua, the Japanese Regional Minister, Mr Seth Kwame Acheampong, has handed over the equipment to all 33 municipal and district assemblies within the Area
The gear included motor graders, bulldozers, backhoes, and tipper vans, which will likely be important for highway development and maintenance initiatives inside the varied municipalities and districts.
Mr Acheampong emphasised the significance of roads because the “lifeblood of communities,” connecting cities and villages and facilitating the motion of products and services.
He expressed confidence that the supply of those autos and machinery would empower municipal and district assemblies to enhance and keep their highway networks successfully.
He known as on them to interact with native communities to establish and prioritise highway initiatives that might have probably the most vital constructive influence.
The Chief Company Communications Officer for the Jospong Group of Firms and a consultant of JA Plantpool, the service supplier for the initiative, Sophia Kudjordji, pledged her firm’s dedication to companioning with the federal government to make sure the success and sustainability of the DRIP.