
The Feed Ghana Project in the Kassena-Nankana West has registered 745 Farmer-Based Groups in the District.
These Farmer-Based Groups are scheduled to benefit from the Project in the Kassena-Nankana West District of the Upper East Region.
The Kassena-Nankana West District Chief Executive (DCE), Hon. Stephen Aeke Akurugo who made this known in his sessional address at the Assembly’s first ordinary meeting explained that only farmers who were duly registered and captured in the programme’s data base will benefit from the support.
He mentioned that for this year, each Farmer-Based Group is permitted to pick the option of either livestock support or crop support but was quick to add that crop support available will provide only fertilizer assistance this year.
“Through the Feed Ghana Project, individual farmers, schools, churches are expected and advised to start backyard gardens. It is my expectation that Hon. Assembly members will equally take this advantage and have their own backyard gardens as it comes with many benefits”, Hon. Akurugo added.
Meanwhile, the Government’s Tree for Life Reforestation Initiative, also launched in March, 2025, targets to plant and nurse some 15,000 seedlings of various tree-species in the District and the DCE entreated the Assembly Members and the general public to call on the Forestry Commission’s offices in near-by Navrongo to pick some of the seedlings for planting.
Hon. Akurugo’s sessional address also disclosed that the Assembly’s Executive Committee meeting held on August 12, 2025 has made some important recommendations for the approval of the General House and appealed to the Assembly Members to do the needful so as to propel development in the area. These included approval for the construction of access road to the Assembly Warehouse in Paga, approval of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene [WASH] bye-laws and approval of the draft Spatial Development Framework as well as an approval for the formation of Community Watchdog Committees in interested electoral areas within the District.
On the financial performance of the District as of June, 2025, the District Chief Executive reported that against a target of 605,007.44 Ghana Cedis as Internally Generated Funds [IGF], some 516,729.42 Ghana Cedis was realised. This according to the DCE represents 85.41 percent of the targeted IGF at the end of June, 2025. He further revealed that, the Assembly also received Six Million, Six Hundred and Ninety-Two Thousand, Seventy-Three Ghana Cedis, Seven Pessewas [₵6,692,073.07] which is 25.09 percent of the targeted amount of Twenty-Six Million, Six-Hundred and Seventy-Seven Thousand, Seventy Cedis, Eighty-Five Pessewas [₵26,677,070.85].
Hon. Akurugu’s address also touched on the District’s health, education and sanitation sectors during which he revealed that, an amount of 1,961,148.05 Ghana Cedis was released to the Assembly for the first quarter of 2025, an amount he added, will be expended on desired development projects in consonance with the guidelines attached. For instance, the construction and furnishing of a CHPS Compound in Amutanga, construction of a maternity block at Mirigu and the construction and furnishing of 1 No. 3-Unit Classroom at Boania A and another at Boania B formed part of the expenditure areas for the release.
Additionally, some water projects to be executed from the release include the drilling and solar mechanisation of 1 No. borehole with 1000 Litres water tank at the Sirigu Senior High School, Paga Senior High School, Chiana Senior High School and same in the Zenga community. Also, 900-number metal frame-with-dual-wooden plates dual desks for public primary schools and 40-number hexagonal tables and 240 chairs for kindergarten pupils are to be procured.
Hon. Akurugo ended his address by stating that, there will also be some spending on the construction of a 24-hour economy market in Tandem. Meanwhile on sanitation, there are work-plans for the evacuation of refuse dumps and maintenance of final dumping site, procurement of 5-number refuse containers, regular dislodging of all institutional and public toilets as well as conduct of sensitisation and gazetting of WASH bye-laws.
Earlier in his welcome remarks to call the House to order, the Assembly’s Presiding Member (PM), Hon. Roland Welagetin commended Assembly Members for their sense of purpose and love for the District’s development which culminated in the DCE’s one-touch confirmation back in April this year and his own election as PM; pledging that he will steer the affairs of the Assembly in such a way that will benefit all members.
The Presiding Member charged his colleagues to be decorous and maintain high level of respect for their colleagues during deliberations on the floor.
Source: Peter Atogewe Wedam, Kassena-Nankana West District Information Officer
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