A group photograph of the Chief of Abrepo as well as the Assemblymember and Unit Committee Members with the Mayor of Kumasi (5th right) after the engagement exercise
Abrepo Residents Interact With KMA Officials, Share Concerns and Challenges.
The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) led by the Mayor Hon. Samuel Pyne last week Thursday interacted with residents of Abrepo during a community durbar at the Bantama Sub-Metro.
This was in accordance with the Local Governance Act 936 (2016) section 40 that requires all Assemblies to engage and interact with residents and other relevant stakeholders within the metropolis to encourage participation in local governance.
The discussions centred on Sanitation, Revenue Mobilization, Transport, Building permits, Temporary permits, Social Welfare, Public Relations and Complains and Entrepreneurial skills initial from Ghana Enetreprises Agency (GEA) where heads of Departments were on hand to provide information and explanation of their respective operations.
The Kumasi Mayor also used the occasion to introduce and launch the Business in a Box, an initiative by Mastercard Foundation and the Ghana Enterprises Agency (GEA) project dubbed ‘Biz in a Box’.
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The Business In a Box project seeks to train and provide start-ups to the youth who are between the ages of 15 to 35 years.
Some of the training and skills impartation are in the area tailoring, hair dressing, handicrafts, agro businesses among others.
Hon Sam Pyne therefore encouraged the youth to take advantage of the GEA initiative to get some employable and entrepreneurial skills.
“I urge the youth to take advantage of this initiative to get some training that would help them to become useful for their families and their communities”, Hon Pyne stated.
Residents:
Adwoa Amankwah, a plantain seller at the Abrepo Market noted her happiness that their dilapidated market would soon be reconstructed to a befitting status as announced by the Mayor.
“I was happy that Hon Sam Pyne pledged the commitment of the Assembly to construct a new market for us since the old is in a bad state now”, Madam Amankwah stated.
Evans Amponsah, a trader of electronic equipments at Abrepo said, ‘it was refreshing to see the Kumasi Mayor and the heads of Departments at the Assembly take time to explain their operations to them’.
“I have lived here for long but have never seen a Mayor of Kumasi sit through an engagement exercise for more than three hours and we are grateful for the responses to our challenges and hopefully we would have them addressed soon”, Mr Amponsah said.
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