CITIZENS of Amuana Praso in the Eastern Region resident in Accra last Sunday organised a get-together to discuss development issues concerning their home town.
The meeting was also used to raise funds to support development activities in the town.
Specific development agenda which the residents deliberated on and raised funds to take care of were the rehabilitation of an old post office building to be converted into a police station, the road leading to the town and electricity supply.
The residents realised GH¢9,200 through the fund-raising with the Member of Parliament (MP) for New Abirem, Mrs Esther Obeng Dapaah, contributing GH¢4,000.
Addressing the gathering, Mrs Dapaah said the community deserved its share of the nation’s resources in terms of infrastructure, since the people contributed to the economy of the country by way of producing cash and food crops.
She said she had already communicated the plight of the community on the floor of Parliament and promised to do her best to get things done for the people.
Mrs Dapaah promised to support the community in every way she could and appealed to the citizens to be caretakers of any facility they would be provided with.
For his part, the chief of Amuana Praso, Nana Opoku Agyemang II, said the citizen of the area had always helped in the development of their area for the past years, especially through communal labour, and urged them to continue to do so.
He said he was forced to call on the citizens in Accra to raise funds after he received a message that the police station would be transferred to another area if the community was not able to provide the service with an office accommodation.
Nana Opoku Agyemang also reminded the people of the upcoming Amantuo festival scheduled for the Easter period, and called on all citizens of the town to attend and contribute their quota.
The chief, who was enstooled about three years ago, said he also used the opportunity to visit his people in Accra to find out how they were faring.
The Chairman of the Amuana Praso Citizens Association in Accra, Mr Ofori Owusu, urged the members and all others to contribute their quota to the development of the town and gave them the assurance that their contribution would be used for the intended purpose.
The Vice-Chairman of the association who was also the chairman for the function, Mr Ofori Kusi, encouraged the youth to work hard and also look up to people who had made it in life as their role models but not be discouraged. He also called on other citizens who were not members of the association to join, since together they could achieve a lot.
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