People of Gomoa Kumasi, a farming community in the Gomoa West District of the Central Region have called on the Government through the Gomoa West District Assembly to provide them with a public place of convenience to help solve the problem where majority of the people use the bush as a place of easing themselves.
The development is said to pose serious health risk such as cholera outbreak.
The appeal was made by the Adontehen of the town, Nana Benyi Botwe I during the celebration of this year’s Annual Ahobaa Kese festival of the town on the theme ‘’Promoting Good Health through Community Development.’’
According to the Adontehen, with a population of over two thousand inhabitants, the town has only one dilapidated public place of convenience constructed by an indigene of the town, one Mr. Ayensu, a native of the town about fifteen years ago.
He was also said to have provided the building currently been used as CHIPS Compound, serving as the only health center for the town and its surrounding villages.
According to the Chief, the town also faces other development problems such as poor road, lack of teachers’ bungalows to accommodate teachers of the only Primary school in the town as well as other facilities,
He noted that though the traditional authorities have assured the Assembly of their readiness to allocate plots of land for any such projects, it has failed to heed to their plea, despite persistent appeals.
He disclosed that the situation has compounded the level of poverty among the people, as they find it difficult to transport their farm products during harvest to market centers at Apam and Dawurampong.
Meanwhile, the Chairman of the Planning committee of the festival, Mr. Stephen Kwame Nyame has warned that they will advice themselves come 2020, as according to him, successive governments have taken them for granted for far too long.
He hinted that school children who complete Primary School in the town have to walk long distance to another town, Gomoa Obokrom before attending Junior High School, a situation he described as dangerous and unacceptable, considering the spate of kidnappings and killings of children for rituals such as Sakawa, which he noted is on the increase in the Region.
He has therefore called on the government to heed to their plea, or face the music come election 2020.
By Robert Ayanful