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Akufo-Addo Fulfils 2016 Promises In Nalerigu, Yapei

by John Kekeli
July 29, 2020
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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo yesterday commissioned the Nalerigu Water Supply Project, constructed under the Sustainable Rural Water and Sanitation Project in fulfilment of his 2016 campaign promise.

The project, he pointed out, has been implemented in 11 out of the 16 regions of the country, and has been financed by a $47.5 million credit facility from the World Bank.

According to him, in the North East and Northern Regions, 106,842 are benefiting from the Project, whose implementation covers four Municipal and District Assemblies, namely West Mamprusi, East Mamprusi and Chereponi, in the North East Region, and Saboba in the Northern Region.

On Monday, President also commissioned the Yapei Water Supply Project to provide potable water to over 11,000 people of Yapei and surrounding communities.

 “The number of beneficiary communities are nine (9), and these are Nalerigu, Walewale, Wungu, Gbimsi, Gambaga, Naanori, Chereponi and Saboba. It is instructive to note that, out of the total amount of twenty-six million, eight hundred and fourty-eight thousand and seventy-five cedis (GH¢26,848,075) spent on the water project in the North East Region, the cost of the Nalerigu Water System was four million, nine hundred and thirty-two thousand and eighty-five cedis (GH¢4,932,085),” he said.

These projects are in fulfillment of a campaign pledge he made to the people of Yapei and Nalerigu in the run-up to the 2016 general election.

“Nearly four years on, I am happy to tell the Yapeiwura, Soale Alhassan, and the good people of Yapei, that Akufo-Addo has fulfilled his promise to provide Yapei with water. I am here this afternoon to commission the Yapei Water Supply System, under the Sustainable Rural Water and Sanitation Project (SRWSP),” President Akufo-Addo stated on Monday.

According to him, “the Yapei Water Supply System will serve eleven thousand, four hundred and forty-three (11,443) people, and has been constructed at a cost of five million, six hundred and sixty-five thousand, nine hundred and sixty-six Ghana cedis, forty-two pesewas (GH¢5,665,966.42)”.

President Nana Akufo-Addo commissioning the Yapei Water Project

It will be recalled that on September 2, 2016, as part of his tour of Northern Region, ahead of the 2016 elections, then candidate Akufo-Addo paid a courtesy call on the paramount chief of Yapei, Yapeiwura Soale Alhassan, who lamented about the deprivation in Yapei of basic social amenities, including potable water.

Yapei, which was part of Northern Region is now in the Savannah region due to the creation of six new regions in the country.

The Yapeiwura spoke at a time when his fellow Gonja, Mr. John Dramani Mahama, was Ghana’s President.

He told then candidate Akufo-Addo that “though John Mahama comes from here and we are surrounded by water, we are thirsty. There is no drinking water at all.”

In his response at the time, candidate Akufo-Addo assured the Yapeiwura that, if, by God’s grace and the generosity of the Ghanaian people, he became President, he would do his best to rectify this problem.

The Sustainable Rural Water and Sanitation Project, initiated in 2017, has been financed with a credit facility from the World Bank, at a total cost of US$47.5 million.

Apart from the Savannah Region, the Rural Water Project has been implemented in 10 other Regions of the country, namely Ahafo, Bono, Bono East, Central, Western, Western North, Northern, North East, Upper West and Upper East Regions.

The Project components include the construction of piped water supply systems, support for household latrine construction, health and hygiene education, and environmental and social safeguards.

In his remarks, President Akufo-Addo told the residents of Yapei that one way to help improve the longevity of the treatment plant is for all of them, collectively, to protect their water bodies by stopping activities such as galamsey, sand winning and farming along river banks, all of which lead to their pollution.

“This would help guarantee improved water supply, in terms of quality, quantity and reliability, to the people of Yapei and surrounding communities. Water-borne diseases, such as guinea worm, cholera and dysentery, would also be eliminated,” he added.

The President was equally hopeful that the Yapei water supply system would go a long way to enhance the country’s collective efforts at protecting it from the COVID-19 pandemic, and was hopeful that “the availability of potable water in this area, investors will take advantage of Government’s Flagship Programmes such as “One- District, One-Factory” to establish small and medium scale factories to create employment opportunities for the youth of this community, and stimulate the growth and development of the local economy.

He encouraged inhabitants of Yapei, with requisite skills in water systems management, to take advantage of the employment opportunities created by the provision of these water systems.

Government, President Akufo-Addo added, “will continue to provide additional resources to ensure that many other communities in the Savannah and other Regions also benefit from these life-changing projects. Together, let us all protect and help maintain the water infrastructure, which has come at such significant expense to the taxpayer.”

“Water For All”

President Akufo-Addo gave assurance that Government would not relent in its efforts to increase access to “Water For All”, a 2016 manifesto commitment of the NPP, which remains a key priority.

“We have secured funding for two other rural based water supply projects, namely, the Rural Communities and Small Towns Water Supply Project (RCSTWSP), otherwise known as the Aqua Africa Water Project, which will benefit one hundred and fifty (150) communities in the Ashanti, Eastern, Greater Accra, Oti and Volta Regions, and the Phase III of the Water Supply Scheme for Central Tongu, Adaklu Anyigbe, Agotime-Ziope Districts and the Ho Municipality.

“Further, Government, through the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources, has awarded contracts for the construction of six hundred and forty-five (645) mechanised borehole systems nationwide”, he added

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