[ 2019-02-27 ]

TMA to complete all projects before end of tenure - MCE
Tema Feb. 27, GNA - The Metropolitan Chief
Executive (MCE) of Tema has hinted on his resolve
to implement all planned projects earmarked for
the development of Tema before the end of his
tenure.

Mr. Felix Mensah Nii Annang-La indicates that most
of the projects under his Tema Restoration Agenda
have reached maturity stages with some of them
already rolled out.

He made this known on Tuesday during a Town Hall
meeting organized by the Tema Metropolitan
Assembly (TMA) at the Tema Newtown Lorry Station.

Mr. Annang-LA hinted that the projects they were
undertaking were many “but we won’t
wait till campaign time before we come around to
fix their roads; we will do all before the
campaign for the people to know we have accepted
what they said.”

In reacting to the concerns by residents of Tema
Newtown during an open forum, the MCE said,
“Most of the things they talked about were
things we have already started working on. For
example the lights fixing has already started in
the communities and we’ve given them two
weeks, street lights would get to Tema
Newtown.”

Mr. Annang-La said road expansion has also started
with all untarred roads about to be tackled. He
made particular reference to the Bankuman road
construction which was a major issue for the
people because it served many communities yet it
was untarred.

The MCE said a lot of Corporate Social
Responsibility (CSR) projects were about to be
rolled out, “An example was the intent of
Tema Lube Oil Company Limited to construct a
dental clinic for the people of Tema.

He said currently, the Assembly was building fence
walls around all government schools within the
Metropolis to protect school properties.

Mr. Annang-La informed that because it was a
fishing community, they knew they would need
outboard motors, “So we supplied 72 outboard
motors at the Tema Canoe basin. We are looking
forward to adding another 100 for the coming
season.”

Mr. Annang-La said his outfit had secured enough
quantities of premix fuel for the fisher men and
that he had set up a committee to address the
issue of hoarding of premix fuel to ensure the
products come on the market and was sold at the
right prices.

In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA),
he said noise making has become an issue for all,
not only in Tema Newtown.

“It is something MMDCEs nationwide are
looking at stopping because it is something that
was disturbing, and because I’m leading the
crusade at the national level, I have to make sure
I stop it in Tema to serve as an example for his
colleagues,” he hinted.

The MCE addressed the poor state of the Chemu
Lagoon by saying, “It was not over for the
Lagoon which has been polluted by the industries
in Tema. Currently, we are in talks with some
people from Denmark who have come to look at the
situation. Very soon some assembly officials would
travel to Denmark to discuss the Chemu Lagoon with
them.”

He said they have started engaging the industries
to begin setting up treatment plants that would
treat their waste before releasing them into the
environment.

He asked all stakeholders to come together to
ensure that the lagoon was restored to its
original state for future generations.

Present at the Town Hall meeting included the
Paramount Chief of Tema, Nii Adjei Kraku II,
representatives of the various clans in Tema
Newtown and the Municipal Coordinating Director
(MCD) of the TMA.

By Alexander Nyarko Yeboah

Source - GNA

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