MP gives cement, roofing sheets and street bulbs to community

Techimantia (B/A), Jan 13, GNA - Mr Andrews Adjei-Yeboah, Member of Parliament for Tano South, has presented some communities in the constituency with 1,000 bags of cement, 30 packets of roofing sheets and 100 street bulbs.

The items cost 100 million and the money came from the MP's share of the Common Fund.

Some of the communities, which received the items to enable them to complete their on-going projects include Derma, Techimantia, Bronsankro, Mansin and Dwomo.

Mr. Adjei-Yeboah said this when he addressed two durbars of the chiefs and people of Techimantia and Derma near Bechem to raise funds to support their projects.

He said that, in addition 100 students in the constituency have been offered scholarships at a cost of about 60 million cedis to encourage them to acquire higher academic laurels.

Mr. Adjei-Yeboah told the people that government alone could not satisfy their development needs and commended the two communities for raising funds in support of their on-going projects.

He appealed to parents in the area to invest in the education of their children to enable them contribute to the country's socio-economic development.

In an address read on his behalf at Derma, the Brong Ahafo Regional Minister, Nana Kwadwo Seinti, advised the people to avoid promiscuous lives in order not to contract HIV/AIDS.

He also assured them that the government was committed to replace the cash and carry system with the Mutual Health Insurance Scheme to improve their access to health care delivery.

Nana Seinti called on parents to desist from using their monies for expensive funerals and litigations to the detriment of the education of their children and expressed his displeasure about the poor 2003 BECE results by candidates in the Tano District.

He said in support of education in the district the government has supplied 6,800 dual desks to basic and secondary schools in the area and called on parents, pupils and students to reciprocate this gesture by doing their best to improve upon academic results.

Nana Oti Ampem, the chief of Techimantia, appealed to his people not to set bush fire during the dry season and warned that those who violate this instruction would be severely dealt with.