As part of government’s effort in ensuring infrastructural development, the West Akim Municipal Assembly has handed over a 3-unit classroom block to the Onyinafunso community.

The edifice was funded through the District Assembly Common Fund (DACF) and the Responsive Factor Grant (RFG) at an estimated cost of GHC502,000.

Handing over the edifice (Onyinafunso M/A Primary School) to the community, the Hon. Municipal Chief Executive, Mr. Seth Oduro Boadu, said education was one of the priority areas of the government and for that matter very salient to ensuring that no community in Ghana was deprived of educational facility.

At the short ceremony, the MCE charged the community and school authorities to be adherents to maintenance culture of the edifice.

He said the Hon. Member of Parliament, Charles Acheampong was lobbying to extend electricity to the community, adding that, in no time the inhabitants of Onyinafunso would be enjoying electricity.

The Municipal Director of Education, Mrs. Eunice Amfo-Akonnor expressed gratitude to the municipal assembly for the gesture.

She said though her outfit needed a 6-unit classroom block for the community, yet, she was joyful, and hopeful that at least the 3-unit was better than none.

The education director expressed joy over what she described as the 3-unit classroom block comprising modern facility, adding that the authorities should inculcate maintenance culture to prolong its span.

The Hon. Assembly Member for the area, Mr. Ntow expressed joy over the gesture and appealed to the inhabitants of the Onyinafunso community to rally support for the government in its development effort.

The Municipal Chief Executive of West Akim Municipal Assembly, Hon. Seth Oduro Boadu, on Monday visited the examination centers within theMunicipality to wish all the candidates the best of luck and also advised them to desist from any examination malpractice that could get them in trouble. With him was the Municipal Education Director and the Deputy Director of the Municipal Assembly.

Today, three security services thus, the Ghana Immigration Service, the Ghana Ambulance Service and the Ghana National Fire Service hoisted their flag to mark the 25th Anniversary of the presence of Ghana National Fire Service in the Municipality. The service commanders in their speech thanked the Municipal Assembly for the support they have shown them, and also outlined some of their challenges to the Municipal Assembly.

The Municipal Chief Executive in return showed gratitude to them for the support given him during his first term in office and also pledged his unflinching support to address the challenges raised by the various Service commanders.

The Municipal Chief Executive, Hon. Seth Oduro Boadu today embarked on an inspection of all ongoing road projects within Asamankese. The projects include the Adeiso-Asamankese main road which is being Asphalted, the ICGC road and the golden child road which are all under construction. After the inspection, he was satisfied with the progress of work done and expressed the optimism that the contractors will finish the work on schedule. He however admonished all road user to obey cautions and instructions issued by the contractors in order not to impede their work.

On Thursday, 30th September 2021, Assembly Members of the West Akim Municipal Assembly confirmed Hon. Seth Oduro Boadu, the President’s nominee for the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) position.

He secured the votes of 34 (72.3%) out of 47 Assembly Members in an exercise supervised by officials of the Electoral Commission.

The Eastern Regional Minister, Hon. Seth Acheampong expressed his profound gratitude to the Assembly members for reposing confidence in the President’s nominee.

The West Akim Municipal Assembly today handed over the site for construction of 3-unit classroom block at Onyinafunso.This project is to aid in the provision of quality education for the people in the Municipality. The Municipal Chief Executive in handing over the site admonished the contractor to provide quality service for the Assembly. He also assured that there are plans to tackle all school with poor infrastructure within the Municipality.The Municipal Education Director, Mrs Eunice Amfo Akonnor thanked the Municipal Assembly for this good gesture and also appealed to the community to give the needed support to the contractor. The Queen Mother in tern thanked the Municipal Assembly for this project.The MCE was joined by the Municipal Coordinating Director, Mr Paul Mac Ofori, The deputy director, Shakil Mahamood Kpedau, Municipal Works Engineer, Matthias Eduah and some heads of departments within the Municipal Assembly.

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) as part of its technical assistance and support project to the Local Government Service for the development and operationalization of an effective and efficient records and fixed assets management system today, visited the West Akim Municipal Assembly as one of the selected MMDAs to pilot this project to train staff of West Akim Municipal Records Unit .The Technical Advisor for the project, Tanaka Yusuku presented the project work plan and outlined the major activities to be executed to achieve the project nationwide.

The Chief Executive, Seth Oduro Boadu, with management of West Akim Municipal Assembly on this day, Monday 2nd August, 2021 moved in to officially inaugurate the Revenue Taskforce as part of its well thought through Revenue mobilization strategies as embodied in its main Revenue Improvement Action Plan (RIAP) for 2021 fiscal year. This is sufficiently grounded in the existing legal framework and regulations.
Section 12 (3a) of the local Governance Act, 2016 (Act 936), places the responsibility for the overall development of the District on the head of the Assembly, West Akim Municipal.
As a result of this, section 12 (3b) tasks the Assembly to come out with requisite Plans, Programmes and Strategies aimed at effective mobilization of the needed resources to enable it carry out the development agenda. Also, the IGF Reference Guide, 2019 found expression for the Assembly revenue drive and strategies for 2021 financial year.
Consequently, the Internally-Generated Fund (IGF) Technical Team as spelt out in the IGF Reference Guide, 2019 document was earlier in the year formed and duly inaugurated by management in the Assembly. It is there to provide, all the technical support to the Revenue Taskforce. The Taskforce was carefully selected with due diligence with regards to individual expertise and efficiency in group performance as exhibited over the years. And more importantly, security from the municipal police department will come handy as key stakeholders in this body.
The Taskforce Team among others is to enforce and ensure general education and sensitization particularly, on revenue matters, development control measures in the municipality, compliance of rules and regulations governing the setting up of businesses and the requisite documentations thereof.

As part of efforts by the Ghana Health Service to improve the health and wellbeing of the school going children in the country, a screening services was initiated for all senior high school entrants in collaboration with Ghana Education Service. in view of this, the West Akim Municipal Health directorate embarked on the screening services for all new entrants ( 2021 academic year) in the district.

The West Akim Municipality on the 27^th of June, 2021 marked its sensitization drive of the 2021 Population and Housing Census with activities such as town procession along the principal streets of Asamankese as well as other major towns in the Municipality during the day. There were blowing of sirens of the Ghana National Fire Service truck and the National Ambulance Service from midnight in Asamankese. Furthermore, lighting of bonfires, call for prayer by Azan from mosques, tolling of church bells, were some activities celebrated in the peripheries of the Municipal capital to mark the Census Night.

Census Night is a statistical reference point or period for the census where enumeration is related to when counting starts; a very crucial stage during the enumeration stage in the census process