Assemblywoman for Mansralor calls for support

Daily Graphic, Pg. 14, Sat. Jan. 02/10


Story: Rebecca Quaicoe-Duho

THE Assemblywoman for the Mansralor Electoral Area, Ms Sylvia Opoku-Manu has called for support and dedication from the people in the electoral area so that she could achieve the purpose for which she was elected into office.
She said without the needed support, she would not be able to deliver on her promise of good roads, gutters, streetlights among others.She therefore, urged them to turn up in their numbers when she calls for area meetings.
Ms Opoku-Boadu was speaking at an end-of-year party she organised for people in the electoral area comprising of Dansoman and surrounding communities.
She took the opportunity to give an account of what she had been able to achieved since elected into office.
She mentioned over a dozen streetlights that had been erected in some areas within the electoral area, repairs on some roads and gutters such as the Dansoman High Street and the beautification of the Dansoman Roundabout among other projects.
Ms Opoku-Manu said more streetlights were going to be erected at strategic places so as to reduce the spate of crime in the area, adding that more roads were also going to be rehabilitated in most communities in 2010.
She also said most of the sewage systems in some areas such as Zodiac, First Stop and Russia Road all in Dansoman were in bad state and promised that she was going to ensure that a central sewage system where all waste in the affected areas are deposited, is rehabilitated.
She said so far, she has been able to achieve a lot through the formation of youth organisations in various communities where she leads such groups to undertake clean-up exercises, as well as other community mobilisation works.
The assemblywoman also said she had been able to identify some women in various areas who needed financial support to boost their businesses and had given them loans.
She later presented a wheelchair to a self-employed disabled shoemaker who according to her, had always been supportive in her mobilisation of people in his area around King Soloman in Dansoman.
Earlier, she had mobilised the youth in the Dansoman SSNIT Flat area to undertake a clean-up exercise where drains and gutters were desilted.

* Picture shows Mr Gottfried Owusu (second left), father of Mr Nelson Owusu the disabled shoemaker, receiving the wheelchair on behalf of his son from Ms Opoku-Manu (first left).