Assin North This Week – 20/11/21
The week started with the DCE leading a team to inspect this year’s BECE exams. In all 1841 candidates made up of 996 males and 845 females drawn from 78 schools, 59 public schools, and 19 private schools were expected to sit for the exams this year in Assin North.
The Nananom from Suaduman and Basofiman paid a visit to the office of the DCE to congratulate him and interact with him. Nananom led by Nana Aboagye Panin (l) Ahenemahene of Apemanim Traditional area and Odikro of Bediadua was full of praise to the DCE and the government for some infrastructure developments ongoing in the area ie road reshaping, CHPs compound, police station among others. They wished him well and appealed for more of such developmental projects in the area.
The DCE and his team of some Assembly staff and NADMO visited some houses at Assin Achiano to monitor and assess the extent of damage caused by a heavy storm which resulted in people losing thousands of properties. He pledged the assembly’s support and also going to liaise with NABMO to support the affected persons at this critical moment in their life.
The Assembly presented some youth artisans to Assin Fosu Zone to sit for the NVTI special exams. This was under the auspices of the GNPC Foundation skilled artisan project initiative implemented in collaboration with the Aseda Foundation. Youth artisans were drawn from Assin North, Assin Fosu Municipal, Assin South, and Abura Asebu Kwamankese.
The DCE of Assin North received a team from the Ministry of Energy who are in the district to help in the distribution of improved cookstoves for use solely by households. The project is part of the government’s agenda to combat climate change in Ghana. This exercise was made successful by the Ministry of Energy in collaboration with the climate change center of South Korea. Over 3,000 improved cookstoves are expected to be distributed on a pilot based in the district.
The DCE led a team from CODA to inspect some ongoing projects in the district this week. Some critical projects that are almost completed will soon be commissioned for use.
The week ended with a General staff durbar at the assembly premises.
