ASMA PREPARES BLUEPRINT FOR DEVELOPMENT OFMUNICIPALITY (PAGE 29, JUNE 9, 2010)

The Ashaiman Municipal Assembly (ASMA) has prepared a blueprint to serve as a road map to help develop and achieve the objectives of the assembly.
The document has education, health, security and environmental issues as priorities that must be tackled without delay.
Speaking to the Daily Graphic ,the Ashaiman Municipal Chief Executive, Numo Adinortey Addison, appealed to all stakeholders within and outside the municipality to contribute and support the implementation of the programme to enable the assembly achieve its vision to transform Ashaiman into a modern city.
The municipal chief executive, who took over the administration the ASHMA in May 2009, said the assembly had been able to complete a streetlight project from the Adjei-Kojo underpass to the timber market roundabout and construct roads and a drainage system under the Urban, Environmental and Sanitation Project (UESP) at the market square and the Taboo electoral areas.
He said the assembly had graded some selected roads in the municipality, decongested the main business district of the municipality, created a new market and lorry station, cleared drains and supplied 525 desks to schools in the municipality.
Numo Addison expressed concern about challenges facing the Ashaiman Municipal Health Directorate and the Ashaiman Polyclinic in particular.
He made a special appeal to non-governmental organisations, corporate bodies, philanthropists and community-based organisations to go to the aid of the Ashaiman Health Directorate and the Polyclinic.
Numo Addison said the assembly would soon raise funds to assist the Ashaiman Polyclinic to procure an ambulance and a scanning machine.
On sanitation, Numo Addison said the assembly had, since it was created, accumulated a debt of GH¢700,000 which must be paid back to private waste management contractors.
He said Ashaiman had plans to privatise waste collection to prevent any further debts.
Numo Addison commended the Municipal Security Committee for the peace and security the metropolis was enjoying as a result of the decrease in the crime rate in the municipality.
He also congratulated the police and all security agencies in the municipality on the good work they were doing.
Numo Addison said the assembly was ensuring that all ongoing projects were completed in the shortest time.
These include the construction of school blocks, a two-unit ward at the polyclinic, rehabilitation of the assembly hall, library and ICT centre at the Ashaiman Senior High School, youth in agriculture and provision of over 750 jobs for the youth.
He commended the women’s group of the Ashaiman Circuit of the Methodist Church for donating food items, toiletries, bedding, treatment equipment and plastic products to the Ashaiman Polyclinic to assist in promoting good health at the clinic.
Numo Addison called on other social groups to support and emulate the gesture of the group.