DWUMA ODDOM HONOURED FOR EXEMPLARY LEADERSHIP (Page 20)

Story: Joe Okyere, Cape Coast

THE chiefs and people of Bepoben in the Twifo-Hemang-Lower Denkyira District, in collaboration with the Peter Anne School Complex at Twifo Mampong have honoured the Deputy Minister of Health, Mr Abraham Dwuma Odoom, for his immense contribution towards the development of the district.
Mr Odoom served as the district chief executive (DCE) for the area between 2000 and 2004, before being promoted as a Deputy Minister of Local Government and Rural Development.
During his tenure, the district, carved out of the Upper Denkyira District, went through a lot of transformation from being a deprived district to become one of the vibrant districts in the Central Region.
In a citation, Mr Kenneth Amprofi, the proprietor of the school, described Mr Odoom as an outstanding citizen of the district through whose efforts the district was connected to the national electricity grid, while a lot of infrastructure, including roads, health and educational facilities, potable water, among others, were provided in several communities in the district.
Mr Amprofi said apart from providing 22 students with scholarships, Mr Odoom had also sponsored 150 people to register with the National Health Insurance Scheme.
At the same function, two British volunteers, Mr Peter Hinchiffe and Mrs Anne Dixon, who taught in the Anne School Complex for four years and helped to build an Information and Communications Technology (ICT) laboratory for the school, were also honoured.
The two volunteers also made available a 10-year scholarship scheme for 24 brilliant, needy children in the school, apart from the provision of a three-classroom block for the school.
Mr Odoom, who will contest the Twifo Atii Morkwaa parliamentary seat on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), thanked the people for their support and appealed to them to vote for him during the 2008 general election.
The DCE for the area, Mr Samuel Yaw Agyebie Kessie, said the district had reached a stage where the politics of deceit and lies should give way for development.