The Ahanta West Municipal Assembly (AWMA) in the Western Region in collaboration with the Business Advisory Center (BAC) has provided both technical and management training programs for new and existing Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the Municipality.
The training programs covered areas like soap making, bead making, baking and confectionery, and provision of business management skills for about forty (40) participants within the mid-year.
This was made known by Madam Henrietta Mary Eyison, Municipal Chief Executive Officer (MCE) of the AWMA at the First Ordinary Meeting of the First Session of the Assembly.
She pointed out that the Executive Committee of the Assembly deliberated on reports from the various sub-committees and recommended that the ICT center and library be reconnected to the national grid, replace destroyed windows by thieves, repair leaking roof and furnish the library and the the ICT center with modern books and computers respectively.
Assembly Members on their part urged the Assembly to organise sensitization programs in each quarter by Zonal Councils on the protection and conservation of the Cape-3-Point Forest Reserve, and as well prevent uncontrolled use of land on water ways and provide a platform for all key stakeholders to dialogue on the way forward to ensure safety of lives and property in the Municipality.
They said that the Assembly should establish strict regulations and lay down modalities to ban the activities of jackpot operators within the Municipality and also the reactivation of the taskforce to deal with the activities of these jackpot operators.
According to them, efforts should be made by management of the Assembly to relocate all tricycle operators near the Agona-Nkwanta Roundabout area to the Light Industrial Area to ensure safety near the roundabout area.
The Members also suggested that the statutory Planning Committee of the Assembly should collaborate with the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) to intensify public education and sensitization on disaster risk management in the Municipality.
They added that the Assembly should improve on its stock of housing units to ease the acute accommodation shortage and take immediate action to forestall any casualty at abandoned school blocks at Egyambra and Nyameye Krom.
The Assembly should also document all self-help projects through the initiation and completion of appropriate designs and cost estimates to ensure that safety requirements are not compromised.
Story: Seth Ameyaw Danquah
