Awutu-Effutu-Senya District Assembly has so far received more than 1.8 billion cedis from the HIPC Relief Fund for socio-economic development. Out of the amount, one billion cedis was from the Central Government, 800 million cedis from the Ministry of Women and Children’s Affairs and 15 million cedis from the Office of the Senior Minister.
Captain Steve Kwamena Armah (Rtd), District Chief Executive (DCE), said these at a workshop organised by the Assembly for stakeholders in the District at the National Sports College, Winneba.
He said one billion cedis had been used to construct toilets in a number of communities while the remaining 815 million cedis was disbursed to farmers, traders and fishermen to boost their businesses.
The DCE expressed the hope that the beneficiaries would use the money purposefully to improve their living standards. He assured people that the nation would not remain in HIPC regime forever but was using it to adopt right strategies to make the nation economically sound. What the government required was for Ghanaians, particularly workers to put in their maximum to move the nation forward.
