The Sunyani Municipal Assembly in the Bono Region has broken ground for six new development projects aimed at improving access to education, healthcare, and water and sanitation services in underserved communities across the municipality.
The projects, funded through the District Assemblies Common Fund (DACF), are expected to ease long-standing infrastructure gaps and enhance the welfare of residents.
The projects, sited in Yawhima, Baakoniaba, Kurosua No. 2, Yamire, Tano Ano and Adomako, are scheduled for completion within eight months. The Sunyani Municipal Chief Executive, Vincent Antwi Agyei, who cut sod for the works said the investments would significantly expand basic education and primary healthcare delivery.
At Kurosua No. 2, a GH¢1 million CHPS compound with staff bungalows and a mechanised borehole is being constructed to serve the community and nearby settlements, where residents previously travelled several kilometres for medical care.
Mr. Agyei said the projects were selected based on needs assessments and aligned with government’s “reset agenda” to address infrastructure deficits in all 34 electoral areas of the municipality.
Sunyani Municipal Director of Health Services, Dr. Richard Adinkrah, welcomed the interventions, noting that residents in Nanketewa, Dobo and Kurosua often relied on private facilities, placing financial strain on households and increasing pressure on major health centres in Sunyani.
In Yawhima, a three-unit classroom block for the African Faith Basic School JHS is being built at a cost of GH¢70,000. The school, which has 561 pupils, has been without a dedicated JHS structure, forcing learners to study under a dilapidated building. The local chief, Nana Ansu Ababio II, praised the project but urged the contractor to avoid shoddy work, and appealed for expansion of the community’s only clinic.
Two more education projects—a two-unit KG block for the Abesim-Tano Ano M/A Basic School and a three-unit classroom block for Yamire—are being rolled out under the Nkrankrom Electoral Area. The existing KG block at Abesim-Tano Ano has deteriorated and poses safety risks to children.
The Sunyani East MP Mubarack Seid said he would allocate part of his MP’s Common Fund to provide school furniture and pledged to support efforts to upgrade roads and address water challenges in the beneficiary communities.
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