The Chiefs and people of Gomoa Manso in the Gomoa Central Districts of the Central Region have embarked on self-help projects to construct a 4-room health facility to be used by the nurses from the Ghana Health Service on their day to day health delivery activities in the town.
The Chief of the town, Nana Kwame Arhin who briefed this reporter said already, the community has spent over GH 20,000.00 Cedis through levies on the project which was started by Plan Ghana-a Non-Governmental Organization but, was abandoned some years ago.
He further hinted that the community has also constructed a shed for the School Feeding programme which has just been introduced to the only public school in the town.
Even the school, according to the Chief, was constructed by the people of the town through communal labour, without any support from the government.
He accused successive governments of neglecting the people of the town to their fate, yet said rush to them to canvass for votes during electioneering periods.
Nana Kwame Arhin noted that every developmental projects in the town was undertaking by some endowed indigenes of the town, citing one Mr. Keelson, former Chief Executive Officer of AKAN PRINTING PRESS who he said brought electricity and water to the town, as well as the Chief Executive Officer of Morgan Farms and Principal of Morgan International Community School, who he said single-handedly constructed the main road to the town.
Readers would recall that over four hundred and fifty students of the only public school in the town share only one computer, during ICT classes.
But despite the neglect by the Government and the District Assembly, the Chief has assured that they will do everything they can to ensure that the town gets what it befits it, in terms of development, with education being their major priority.
By Robert Ayanful