COURT COMPLEX FOR ASSIN FOSU (PAGE 22)

THE Assin Fosu District Magistrate’s Court in collaboration with the Assin North Municipal Assembly, traditional councils in the two Assin districts and some prominent persons are constructing a court complex at Assin Fosu.
The court complex, which will house district magistrate and circuit courts,14 offices, a conference room, a canteen, a clinic, a gymnasium, a library and an information and communication (ICT) technology centre, an office for the police and cells for male and female.
The District Magistrate, Mr Joseph Blay, briefed the Daily Graphic during a tour of the site.
He said response from prominent persons and chiefs to the project, which started in May, 2007, had been encouraging.Currently,work is at the roofing level.
Mr Blay said so far contributions had been received from the Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin North, Mr Kennedy Agyepong, who had donated 1,000 bags of cement, four tonnes of iron rods, GH¢1,000 for the purchase of wood, and also promised to provide roofing sheets.
He said other donations had come from Nana Prah Agyensem, the Paramount Chief of Esienkyiem; Barima Kwame Nkyi II, the Omanhene of Assin Apimanim, Nana Tsibu Asare II, the Omanhene of the Assin Atandanso; the chiefs of Endwa and Akonfode.
Mr Blay stated that the chiefs had also mobilised their people to offer communal labour for the project while the Assin North Municipal Assembly was providing technical support as well as bearing the wages of the workers on the project.
He said he was personally supervising the project with his engineering background.
Mr Blay commended all the people who had in diverse ways contributed towards the project.
He appealed to citizens of the area, both home and abroad, the Ministry of Justice and Attorney-General’s Department and the Chief Justice to assist in the completion of the project.