University of Environmental and Sustainable Development to admit first batch of students in January – Kupualor

The University of Environmental and Sustainable Development will admit its first batch of students in January, 2020, Municipal Chief Executive for Yilo Krobo, Ebenezer Tetteh Kupualor has disclosed.

The University is expected to be opened in January with admission of its first batch of students who will be trained in various disciplines.

This follows the completion of the first phase of infrastructural development which include roads and streets, administration block, classroom and lecture halls, hostel, laboratory, Multi-Purpose Auditorium (includes Banking Hall, Cafeteria and Entertainment Centre) residential accommodation for senior management and waste treatment plant.

The MCE made the disclosure when he met the press in his maiden ‘meet the press’ series at Somanya.

Mr. Kupualor disclosed that the second phase of construction of the facility by the GETFUND, is ongoing and when fully completed is expected to create about three thousand jobs made up of lecturers, administrators, researchers, laborers, etc.

The Yilo Krobo Municipal Assembly as part of its efforts towards ensuring the promotion of development communication and information dissemination to the citizens to encourage peoples participation in local governance, held its maiden ‘Meet the Press’ event at the assembly hall of the municipal assembly.

The MCE also appealed to the electorate to take advantage of the opportunity to elect the Municipal Chief Executive scheduled for the 17th of December, 2019, and vote “yes,” adding that the assembly was in the process of constituting a committee to work on the referendum.

Mr. Kupualor also touched on other projects including government flagship programmes such as the Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ), the Planting for Export and Rural Development where three thousand mango seedlings were procured by the Assembly and distributed to fifty-five farmers, the free SHS programme which has seen significant increases in school enrolment, the Nation Builders Corps (NABCO) which current number of trainees stand at 227 trainees in Yilo.

Others include People Living With Disability (PWDs) where the assembly has supported 201 PWDs with Cash payments, Payment of school fees, Procurement of income generating equipment and tools.

Additionally, the one million dollars per constituency/IPEP program has funded a number of developmental projects in the municipality including three Institutional toilets at Klo-Agogo SHS, Yikrosec, Somanya Presby Basic Schools, three mechanized solar powered boreholes at Tsosingua, Klo Begoro, and Akorwu Bana, one district one warehouse at New Somanya, one market shed at Akutunya, Somanya, rehabilitation of the Klo Agogo Market and the Yilo State KG Block.

Aside the Assembly entering into partnership with International Water Management Institute and other partners to construct a fortified fertilizer and briquette factory expected to be completed at the end of December 2019 to produce organic fertilizer and briquette (Charcoal) from organic waste materials in commercial quantities, the assembly chief also disclosed that the Assembly and the Rural Enterprises Programme (REP) were preparing to start the construction of a mango processing factory, at Akorley.

Under Developmental Projects, Mr. Kupualor said the Assembly has teamed up with Pencil of Promise, an NGO to construct a 6-unit classroom block at Nkurakan Presbyterian Primary School, a one storey, 6-unit classrooms block and ancillary facilities at the Methodist JHS at Somanya which is under construction, the completion of 6-unit classroom block for Ogome Anglican Primary School in Somanya, and the Klo-Agogo SHS which is benefitting from dormitory blocks, bungalows for senior house mistress and house master, a 12-unit classroom block and a 12 seater w/c toilet facility.

The assembly is feverishly undertaking a number of road projects in the municipality including the construction of feeder roads from Aboa Osuboninya to Abua-Besease, the construction of Yikrosec junction road to Adjikpo main road, pot-hole patching/sectional repairs on selected roads within Yilo Krobo Municipality, reshaping of Nkurakan Polyclinic road, Etwiso main road and road from Nkurankan clinic junction to Nkurakan police barrier and the construction of feeder roads from the main Accra road.

With 65% of works complete, the municipal is also set to get its first municipal hospital with the construction of an ultra-modern Hospital at Somanya by the Ministry of Health.

A number of projects which were also inherited from the previous government are either ongoing or completed by the NPP government in Yilo Krobo Municipality include the Community Day Senior High School at Apersua which is ongoing, the completion and commissioning of Kornokle dam for irrigation with the assembly committing some GH¢180,000.00 into the completion of a nurses’ quarters at Klo-Agogo clinic and the completion of the Akorwu-Bana polyclinic with mechanized borehole.

Other projects include electricity supply to Akutunya Market, Pompomse Electricity Extension, Nsutapong Terpuornya Electricity Extension, Swakorm Electricity Extension, Djeopleminya Electricity Extension, Oluahai Yiti Electricity Extension, Esuom Electricity Extension, Obuadaso Electricity Extension, Torgodo Electricity Extension, Adebom Electricity Extension, Desa Electricity Extension, Monu Electricity Extension, Awuzablem Electricity Extension and the Asinesi Electricity Extension as well as connecting the Yilo Krobo Senior high School to the supply of pipe borne water and water extention from DVLA to Akwetemam.