AWDA HOLDS STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT ON PROJECT SITES AND FREE PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
The Ada West District Assembly on 20th and 21st of April 2026 held community stakeholder engagement to provide avenue for the Planning Coordinating Unit of the Assembly and relevant stakeholders to inspect proposed project sites and as well to create participatory engagement for community members to interface with contractors, project designs and to discuss the communities’ roles and responsibilities as beneficiaries. The platform was also used by the District Chief Executive (DCE) and the District Health Director to sensitize the community members on the recently launched free Primary Health Care policy by H.E John Dramani Mahama.
The first day of the two days community engagement took the relevant officers of the Ada West District Assembly to the communities of Afiadenyigba, Luhour and Bonikope which respectively are to benefit from extension water project, CHIPS compound, and 3-Unit Classroom Block.
At Afiadenyigba, the beneficiary community of the water extension project, the DCE, Hon. Modjifa Tanihu J.J.F. Mills-Nkrumah underscored the importance of the project and admonished the indigenes to protect the project as their own and stressed, that anybody found interrupting the implementation of the project would be dealt with. The DCE also indicated, that those whose lands the pipe lines would be passing through should not worry as no damage would be caused to the land and cautioned against illegal water connection for farm use as was reported in the past.
The DCE also appealed to the contractor Mr. Lumorvi Godwin of WIN MEG VENTURES LTD, that the company should provide employment opportunity to those community members ready to work, if the company needs additional hands. However, the DCE cautioned, that those community members who would be privileged to be engaged by the contractor should not use excuses of farming to absent themselves from work as was the case in the past.
The District Engineer, Mr. Eric Asiwome Amekoenyo on his part also talked about the importance of the water extension project to the Afiadenyigba community, the challenges faced in the past, and said the project in question is 4.5km distance stretching from Caesarkope to Afiadenyigba representing phase one of the project and added that phase two would be from Afiadenygba to Aditcherekope. The District Engineer assured the community that the project would be executed in line with established guidelines to ensure value for money and stressed, that anybody who has problem with the work of the contractor should not confront the contractor but get in touch with the Assembly through the Assembly member for the area; the District Engineer reiterated this caution in all the beneficiary communities visited and urged the communities to corporate to ensure the completion of the projects in record time.
The contractor for the water extension project at Afiadenyigba, Mr. Lumorvi Godwin, assured both the communities and the Ada West Assembly of his company’s commitment to deliver on the terms of the contract and urged the communities to take interest in the projects and also pledged their readiness to engage additional hands on the water extension project as requested by the DCE. The contractor however cautioned, that, in as much as they are ready to engage the community, they would not want the community to dictate to them and indicated, that even though the duration for the water extension project is 3 months, they are determined to complete the project before the 3 months. The contractor also assured that the excavations that would be carried out to lay the pipe lines would be done professionally and the lands would be duly restored for farm use.
Mr. Lumorvi Godwin who is also the contractor for a CHIPS compound project at Luhour again promised to deliver the said project in record time of 6 months. The Luhour CHIPS compound comprises of offices, delivery ward, 2-Unit Nurse Quarters, Consulting Room and Recovery Room. Mr. Enock Akakpo, the Quantity Surveyor of the Ada West Assembly took the community through the scope of the project and assured the community that after the project is completed, office furnFiture would be supplied.
The last community for the first day of the community engagement was Bonikope also benefiting from a 3-Unit Classroom Block. Here, Hon. Modjifa Tanihu J.J.F. Mills-Nkrumah indicated that since he became DCE, the traditional leader for the area, Nene Kwesi Dameh never stopped calling on him and one of his engagement was what resulted in his decision to renovate the Bonikope Health Centre which was commissioned on 24th March 2026. The DCE however indicated that it was just when the traditional leader engaged him about the need to renovate the Nurses bungalow at the Health Centre that the community school was ripped off by storm and as result of the discussion they had, they deemed it prudent to first see to the school before the nurses bungalow and hence, the decision to undertake the 3-Unit Classroom Block project which comes with office and stores. The District Engineer again admonished, that, if the community has any problem with the project they should not confront the contractor but get in touch with the Assembly through the Assembly member for the area.
The Ada West District Education Director, Dr. Stephen Arthur on his part said that the purpose of government putting up schools is to ensure access to education as well as retention till completion in order to ensure quality education. Dr. Arthur therefore stressed, that, for government to achieve quality education, there must be certain conditions namely classrooms where the pupils would have comfortable space for learning and added, that when he became Education Director for Ada West, it has been his commitment to ensure that schools in the district have comfortable classroom spaces for quality learning and thanked the DCE for the project. The Education Director therefore admonished the community to play their part to ensure quality education and said that they are currently implementing “right age education” which is a policy to ensure that the children start school at the right age (of 4 years) and urged parents to help achieve that.
In all the 3 communities, the District Health Director, Dr. Maxwell Onassis Fiadjor and the DCE also provided public education on the recently launched free Primary Health Care by H.E John Dramani Mahama on Wednesday, 15th April 2025 which is intended to bring healthcare to the doorsteps of the people.
The Health Director who said the free Primary Health Care is another step towards achieving Universal Health Coverage took his time to explain in details what the policy is about to the people and assured them of the Ada West District Health Directorate readiness to implement the policy when it is fully rolled out in 3 months. Universal Health Coverage according to the World Health Organization (WHO) is “a situation where all people have access to the full range of quality health services they need, when and where they need them, without financial hardship” and this includes “health promotion, prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and palliative care across the life course”. The free Primary Health Care policy therefore is to provide majority of Ghanaians who are currently not on the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) as well as those on the NHIS opportunity to walk into any Community health post, CHIPS compound, Health Centre or Poly Clinic to test for free, for basic health conditions and non-communicable diseases such as BP, breast screening, sugar level among others.
The Health Director also expressed his gratitude to the DCE and by extension the Ada West District Assembly for the commitment to expand construction of CHIPS compounds in the district which he said would be very instrumental in the implementation of the free Primary Health Care policy, and indicated that Ada West District was lucky to be among the 10 districts selected in Greater Accra Region to be part of the first phase of the 150 districts selected nationwide to commence the implementation of the free Primary Health Care.
The second day of the community engagement on 21st April 2026 took the team of the Ada West Assembly to Ahliakposisi and Koni benefiting respectively from Construction of KG Block with hexagonal desks, and construction of CHIPS compound. Here again, contractors pledged their commitment to complete the work on schedule. The District Coordinating Director (DCD), Mr. Gordon Walter Doe in his remarks indicated that the KG project for the Ahliakposisi community has become necessary due to some engagement with the Assembly member for the area after need assessment to warrant the project, and urged the community to ensure that the land in question for the project is litigation free. The community leaders and the Assembly member, Hon. Peter Nartey Kojo Kwame in response gave their words and assured the Assembly in that respect.
Other Assembly members present in their communities to pledge their support and commitment to projects brought to them are Hon. John Ofoe Akpakpavi, Hon. Jonathan T. Asamanyuah and Hon. Ernest Kugblenu for the Afiadenyigba, Addokope and Sege-Koni Electoral Areas respectively.
In all the five (5) communities visited, the engagement was participatory and the community members asked relevant questions in respect of the projects brought to them as well as questions on the free Primary Health Care and answers provided to their satisfaction.
ISD DESK, AWDA
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2026