ELMINA PREMIX C'TTEE ASSISTS TRADITIONAL COUNCIL (Page 34)

Story: Joe Okyere, Elmina

The Interim Management Committee (IMC) for the Elmina Premix Committee has realised ¢92,596,000 (GH¢ 92,596) from its operations from November last year to date.
Out of the amount, 20 pupils from the community benefited from a bursary of ¢500,000 (GH¢50) each.
The committee also presented 50 bags of cement to the Edina Traditional Council as its contribution towards the construction of a new omanhen’s palace and donated materials for school uniforms and learning materials all totalling ¢15 million (GH¢1,500) to 50 basic school pupils who are children of fishermen and fishmongers in the community.
Speaking at a forum at Elmina to render accounts on its operations, Mr Joseph Kweku Asmah, Secretary of the IMC said the rest of the money had been deposited in the Committee’s accounts with the Kakum Rural Bank.
Mr Asmah said the committee would meet again to decide how to utilise the rest of the money in the best interest of the fishermen, fishmongers and the community.
The District Chief Executive for Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem, Mr George Frank Asmah explained that the issue of the suspension of the chief fisherman, Jojo Solomon, from the Premix Committee had been taken over by the Ministry of Fisheries which is conducting investigations into the allegations made against him during his tenure of office.
Mr Asmah further explained that the chief fisherman had only been suspended from the Premix Committee following the allegations but still remained the chief fisherman for the community since it is not the committee that installed him as such.
The Central Regional Chairman of the Premix Committee, Alhaji Mustapha Mohammed, said the profit had accrued from the sale of premix supplied by 64 tankers from the Tema Oil Refinery.
He cautioned the fishermen to be circumspect in their pronouncements in order not to destroy the reputation of members of the IMC who had worked diligently to increase revenue from the sale of premix fuel since it took over last November.