THE Ledzokuku-Krowor Municipal Assembly (LEKMA) is set to partner the Management Development and Productivity Institute to reclaim portions of its land located at Batsoona on the Spintex Road which have been massively encroached on.
The over 150 acres were acquired by the government in 1974 through an executive instrument (EI 112) for the construction of a West African Sub-regional Management Development and Productivity Institute to train students in management, development and other disciplines during the formation of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
The project stalled over the years and various construction works by individual developers continue to spring up on the land.
The Municipal Chief Executive, Mr Daniel Amartey Mensah, disclosed this at a community programme organised by the assembly at Teshie, a suburb of Accra.
The programme, which is part of the decentralisation process, was aimed at interacting and dialoguing with the local authorities on key issues that directly affect the social and economic activities of the people.
Over 70 participants from the Association of Persons with Disability, artisans, fishermen and fishmongers and personnel from the municipal health directorate and other governmental agencies participated in the one-day forum.
Mr Mensah indicated that the municipal assembly was in the process of preparing its 2010-2013 medium-term development plan, hence the need to consult the electorate, who were the recipients, at the various stages of its development.
“This was to ensure the electorate’s engagement in the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the projects and its related activities,” he said.
He said the area annually faced life threatening situations such as floods, acute water shortage, decaying environment, in which 50 per cent of residents in the municipality were affected.
“The inadequate classroom infrastructure which has compelled various basic schools in the municipality to run shift systems and the high unemployment rate are some immediate problems the assembly is committed to addressing,” Mr Mensah stated.
He charged members of the assembly to involve their electorate in the planning processes to help the assembly prioritise its project implementation.
The chief executive also tasked residents to support the assembly to reclaim portions of the 158.184 acres belonging to the MDPI as the school faced eviction from its present location at the old ministries in Accra.
The planning officer of the assembly, Mr Phillip Ampadu-Oppong, told participants in the forum that the dialogue with communities in the municipality was aimed at incorporating residents’ inputs in the assembly’s development programmes.
According to him, gender and vulnerability was one key element identified by officials in a household research conducted by the assembly, and charged them not to be apathetic towards the assembly’s initiated programmes aimed at improving livelihood and economic status of the community.
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