[ 2019-03-06 ]

GNPC Foundation provides boreholes for 40 communities
The Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC)
Foundation has provided 40 communities in the
Northern, Savannah and North East regions with
boreholes to help address the perennial water
shortage and access to potable water faced by the
beneficiary communities.

The foundation said it was set to construct 120
boreholes this year in the three northern regions
to address the lack of access to potable water in
needy communities in these regions.

At the handover ceremony of one of the newly
constructed boreholes at Kanshegu in the Savelugu
Municipality in the Northern Region, the Executive
Director of the GNPC Foundation, Mr Dominic Eduah,
said the provision of the boreholes was based on a
need assessment of the communities.

He added that the beneficiary communities saw the
provision of the water facility as a priority to
lessen their plight of having to trek long
distances in search of water for drinking and
household chores.

Mr Eduah explained that the foundation was the CSI
arm of the GNPC pivoted on three thematic units
namely, education and training , economic
empowerment and environment and social amenities.

All of that, he said, existed to drive development
through community engagement and interventions by
bringing relief to communities and people within
the GNPC's production enclave which now stretched
across six regions with the GNPC currently
prospecting for hydrocarbons in the Voltaian
Basin.

Appreciation

The Northern Regional Minister, Mr Salifu Saeed,
for his part, expressed his gratitude to the GNPC
for the provision of the boreholes for the
communities, saying it would go a long way to
improve on the standard of living of the people.

He urged the beneficiary communities of the water
project to take good care of the facility to
increase its lifespan.

The Municipal Chief Executive of Savelugu, Hajia
Ayishetu Seidu, and the Member of Parliament (MP)
for Savelugu, Alhaji Sumed Gunu, also thanked the
foundation for the support and appealed for help
to address the lack of classroom blocks and
furniture faced by both basic and Senior High
Schools (SHS) in the municipality.

They further appealed to the foundation to extend
the GNPC's scholarship scheme to the area to
enable needy brilliant students in the
municipality to pursue tertiary education.

The Chief of Kanshegu, Naa Amadu Mahama, on behalf
of the Paramount Chief of Savelugu, Yoo-Naa Andani
Yakubu Abdulai V, and the people, thanked the GNPC
for the gesture.

Source - Graphic

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