The Prestea Huni Valley Municipal Assembly held its third ordinary general assembly meeting on the 23rd of December 2021, at Bogoso assembly hall. In attendance was Hon. Isaac Dasmani (PhD) the Municipal Chief Executive for Prestea Huni Valley Assembly, Mr Emmanuel Gyan the Municipal Coordinating Director, Hon. Francis Asmah (PM) honourable members and heads of the Department.
Addressed the assembly, Hon. Isaac Dasmani (PhD) talked about security, education, agriculture, completion of ongoing projects, and health care issues. Talking about security, Hon. Dasmani mentioned that from the beginning of the year 2021, the security situation in the municipal has been peaceful and calm. With this he made mention of an instance of the collapse of the illegal mining at Wassa Assikuma where out of 14 victims, 9 died instantly, five were also rushed to the hospital. He added that together with Hon, Barbara Oteng Gyasi They paid a courtesy call on bereaved families and the site where the incident happened to get the actual information and to find ways to put a stop to such incidents in the future.
With education, he mentioned that the Ministry of Education organized a National Standardized test for all primary 4 pupils which were done on 17th of December 2021 across the whole nation. The test was to evaluate the learning outcomes of students in English and Mathematics. With Agriculture, the municipal edition of the 37th farmer’s day celebration was held at Damang R/c school park on 3/12/21 under the theme planting for foods and jobs consolidating food systems in Ghana. The Municipality awarded 23 categories of farmers with different awards items ranging from cutlasses, Wellington boots, insecticides and weedicides, fridges, tricycles, and a mini truck vehicle. He added that the Municipal farmer’s day celebration won the admiration of many MMDAs across the Western Region.
Dr Tasmania said the Municipal has completed so many projects within the municipality with other ongoing projects. He also made mentioned of new once to commence soon Such as sod cutting for the commence of a two-story office complex for education, health, and another important department, procurement of a 4×4 pickup vehicle, supply, and installation of generator set all at Bogoso, He said a new excavator will be purchased for the assembly by the MDF secretariat. Talking to the Honorable members, Hon Dasmani reminded the assembly members to sensitize their community members as the Covid 19 pandemic s still with us and this time in a new form known as Omicron and is spreading very fast. He stated that December is declared Vaccination month by the government. He ended by saying that the vaccination is being done and available at various health centres across the country.
