Monthly Archives: July 2025

Mr. Isaac Donkor, Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Kintampo Municipality visited all Zoomlion Vantage Cleaning points in the Municipality to see how the cleaning activities are ongoing after the President of the Republic of Ghana announced it would not be renewing the sweeping contact with the Zoomlion Company after its expiration.

he reason for this visitation was to get the total number of Zoomlion workers who are still at post working for the municipality since January 2025 after the news.

In a brief discussion with them, the MCE wanted to know the total number of workers who are still at post and to see how the municipality can pay them from January to June and to select the hard working ones for employment at the Municipal Assembly.

The workers visited were very grateful for the good news from the Municipal Chief Executive in their interaction with him.

They used the opportunity to outline some challenges they are facing such as tools for working, uniforms, and tricycle to enable them work proactively in the Municipality.

They also appealed to the MCE to help communicate with the President of the Republic of Ghana to pay salaries owned them by the previous government.

Areas visited were; the municipal daily market, STC ward, Ntankoro Station, Tamale Station, the weekly Market and Babator and other communities.

The Kintampo Municipal Assembly organized a youth forum to bring together youth leaders, development partners, entrepreneurs, policymakers and community leaders to deliberate on youth empowerment, innovation, inclusion, and opportunities available for sustainable livelihoods.

The programme which was organized by the National Youth Authority-Kintampo Municipal office with key stakeholders saw all youth groups, both secondary and tertiary, fashion designers, youth in farming, decorators and other vocations come together at the Kintampo Municipal Assembly premises with their exhibits to encourage other youth to mentor and better their livelihood instead of looking for white color jobs which are not available.

Mr. John Hammod the Director from the Municipal Business Advisory Center, Mr. Benjamin Amofa the Bono East Regional MASLO Director, Mr. Fredus entrepreneur and philanthropist from the Municipality were invited guest who came to inspire, inform and educate the growing youth of the municipality on how to set-up, develop or expand their businesses.

The Municipal Director for National Youth Authority, Mr. Shaibu Fuseini Fentedua in his address, stated the important of using “Empowering the Youth for inclusive Development and sustainable Impact” as the theme for the programme; stating that it was to call on the youth of Kintampo to take action; a platform to reflect and nurture their dreams.

He stated that, the youth of the municipality should have a common goal; that is the development of the municipality through active youth programme participation for their voices, ideas and innovations would be head.

He added that, “this forum is an opportunity for us to deliberate on issues affecting the youth in Kintampo Municipality from unemployment, education, entrepreneurship, digital inclusion, agricultural, environmental sustainability, civic engagement “. He encourages all to fully participate and asked questions, contributions and lean.

The Municipal Chief Executive(MCE) For the Kintampo Municipality Mr. Isaac Donkor in his speech outlined some activities his government, the National Democratic Congress(NDC) is undertaking and asked all to get involved such as the ; Better Skills and Education for TVET centers, Support for Entrepreneurs; start-up loans, business hubs and training opportunities available to support their innovations and hustle.

Others are Digital and Creative growth, Agribusiness Opportunities and youth Inclusion; stronger youth-focus policies, the creation of a youth ministry to involve young people in local governance among others.

He advised them not just to be the future, but the present farmers, innovators, students, artisans, entrepreneurs, and the digital king kongs who are already shaping the direction of our communities.

Mr. Donkor challenged them to the task of dreaming boldly, act courageously, and never underestimate their value to the Kintampo Municipality.

The Kintampo Municipal Hospital for about three (3) days now have not been able to generate Claim Check Codes (CCC) through the direct integration method to enable patients get health care services at the Municipal Hospital.

The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) Mr. Isaac Donkor with some staff from the assembly visited the Kintampo Municipal Hospital administration to see the way forward in resolving the issues.

Information got was that, the issue was a nationwide problem affecting all health care providers in the country for the past three days and it cannot be solved locally unless at the national level, according to the Municipal Hospital Human Resources Officer Madam Nancy Boateng, adding that only emergencies cases are taken care of with clients that can pay for the service.

Meeting with the Municipal Health Insurance District Manager Mr. Anthony Kudjo Asuo informed the MCE and his team that, the Municipal Hospital was supposed to use a special mobile sim card given to them to generate the Claim Check Codes (CCC) which was communicated to them a day before our visit on their group platform.

And that, a temporal work around, affected healthcare providers can use the code *842# to input same in their Health Management Information system (HMIS) application”. He also added that, “they were informed that, “providers should use the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) platform to generate Claim Check Codes (CCC). The USSD channel was fully operational and can be used without distraction”.

According to Mr. Num Abraham they were at the Municipal Hospital this morning to access how far situation was just to be told that the special mobile sim card given to them for accessing claims was deactivated due to it not being in use for some months now and it needed to be activated every month to enable it work. And administrators were not around as at the time visited.

A visit to other private Health Care provider’s facilities in the municipality saw health care delivery on going well with the mobile special sim card given to them for the generation of claim check codes (CCC) for clients.