On Friday, 19th December 2025, the Third Ordinary meeting of the Second Session of the Fifth Assembly of the Sefwi Akontombra District Assembly was held, where the District Chief Executive, Hon Joseph Appiah, spoke to the Assembly on security, health, education, agriculture, projects, programmes and poverty alleviation. It also centered on revenue performance of the Assembly and some other special events that happened in the district the year under review.
On security, Mr. Appiah stated that the District has experienced relatively peaceful and good security atmosphere within period he became the DCE even though there were reports of pockets of theft and criminal activities.
The District Security Council (DISEC) of which I am the chairman held successful meetings to address issues concerning illegal mining and other security issues in the district. It is the decision
of DISEC to flash out all illegal miners in the district to ensure there is clean water and productive lands for our farmers. He indicated.
Speaking on education, the District Chief Executive mentioned that in a collective efforts and attempts to improve the quality of education in the District, the Education Directorate conducted monitoring exercises to ensure that the laid down rule and regulations were followed by teachers, students and Non-teaching staff.
The government of his Excellency John Dramani Mahama is committed to his promise of distributing pads to our girls in school to ensure that they manage their periods with dignity and stay in school. I am glad to inform you that our girls have been supplied with the pads when school resumed. He reiterated.
The Department of Ghana Education Service in the District has embarked on my First Day at school to ensure that students/pupils come to school and lessons are started as soon as possible. The Assembly supported the Department to undertake this exercise. The Department of Education has started taking passport pictures of students in preparation towards the 2026 BECE examination. The Department is currently working on the School Farms Policy which seeks to create farms in various schools in the District. He emphasized.
He acknowledged that there are challenges such as inadequate accommodation for teachers, desk deficits in schools, collapse of school buildings in some communities which needed to be resolved.
Commenting on health, he stated that, this government is focused on expanding infrastructure, improve access to care, with future plans emphasizing chronic disease support and public health education.
The Health Department as part of its responsibilities undertook the following activities: Routine vaccination sessions in all 30 health facilities and outreach points, Training of 57 staff on vaccination, District responded to Mpox outreach with zero cases at this point in time, Community sensitization to topical health issues including malaria, HIV, TB, family planning, skilled delivery among others, Sample transportation of priority public health conditions, Distribution of 5 motor
bikes to selected health facilities in the District, Conducted the calcination of girls aged 9-14 on the HPV vaccine.
It is the wish of this government that every community have clean environment. I am happy to state that some of the Hon. Assembly Members have started organizing Sanitation Day in the electoral areas as support to the National Sanitation Day.
This policy also seeks to make it obligatory for all individuals and corporate entities to be responsible for the cleaning of their immediate surroundings and enjoins all MMDAs to ensure full implementation within their various jurisdictions. He added.
It is with this government that our nation has seen ongoing implementation of flagship programmes such as: Feed Ghana Programme (FGP) that Akontombra District has its share with the objective of modernizing farming through innovation, create jobs, ensure food security, and boost agro-industrialization.
The government policy on Feed Ghana in the District is ongoing and under it, 72 communities were sensitized on the feed Ghana Programme. A total of 604 FBOs have been formed and enrolled into the web based tracker platform and Akontombra district is second in terms of number of FBOs formed and enrolled in the region. The Department of Agric has also undertaken the following activities; Scouting for fall army worms were done during the early stages of the maize. A total of 212Ha of maize farms were affected by the fall army worm. As a result of this, Adepa 24 litres and Warrior Super 96 bottles were received from the Regional Directorate and supplied to the affected farmers to spray their farms.
Again, a total of 3,140 farmers were visited by the AEAs during the period under review. 14,645 animals which includes goats, sheep, cattle, poultry birds, and dogs were treated and vaccinated against various disease. The Department of Agric of SADA also supplied 9880 coconut seedlings to 254 farmers across the district. He informed.
Addressing the August house, Honorable Joseph Appiah said that the Youth Employment Agency under the current government continue to work very hard to create more jobs in the country. The Youth Employment Agency has currently employed the youth in Ghana to train them to provide immediate, life-saving first aid and basic support during medical emergencies, bridging the gap until professional paramedics arrive. Under this, 20 youth from Akontombra district have been employed and I hope that more jobs opportunities will be created by the able President, His Excellency John Dramani Mahama. The interesting thing about this is that they are positioned within our communities (Electoral Areas) and attached to Assembly Members for rapid medical response. 11 youth from Akontombra district have also been absorbed into the prison service under the Youth Employment Agency. He stressed.
Excerpts from the meeting
