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The Kintampo Municipal Assembly Department of Agriculture sensitized residents on African Swine Fever (ASF) in some communities in the Municipality.

The exercise carried out by Dr. David Mensah, the Veterinary Doctor and his staff was targeted at pig farmers and aimed at informing and educate them on the signs and symptoms of the disease and its prevention since there is no known vaccine.

Dr. Mensah revealed that, Ghana as a country is still trying its best to get Vaccine or treatment for the disease but so far it has not been successful yet, so for that matter farmers should try not to allow their pigs to be attacked by this harmful disease/sickness which has hit the country for some time now.

Farmers were taken through signs such as; high fever, decreased appetite, red or blotchy skin lesions, diarrhea, vomiting, coughing, difficulty breathing and in severe cases, sudden death.

On prevention they were advised to

• limit access to farms;

• to undertake rigorous cleaning and disinfection, and avoid the introduction of contaminated materials,

• restricting access to the farm by visitors,

• introduction of footbath at entrances and exits,

• avoid feeding pigs with garbage such as leftover food or household waste,

• isolate sick pigs from the herd and keep visiting them always to monitor them.

Farmers expressed gratitude to the team for enlightening them on the out-break of the disease(ASF) which have become a worry to them as farmers affected by the African Swine Fever (ASF) have lost their source of income and now counting their losses.

Most pork sales and family are also complaining of the price of pork in the market it is their sours of protein and is expensive in the market.

Meanwhile Dr. Mensah revealed in an interview assured that samples of the dad pigs have been taken to Accra for further examination.

Residents of the Kintampo Municipality had a shock of their lives after rainstorm with lighting hit the Municipality destroying properties running into thousands of cedis.

Mr. Robert Aparik a retired Environmental Health officer who went on retirement had his four-bedroom house with a provision shop burnt to ashes.

According to Mr. Aparik he was in the room when the rain stated at about 9 O’clock that evening and all he heard was people outside shouting fire only for him to come out to see one of his rooms on-fire.

The Ghana National Fire Service assisted by other individuals came to help put off the fire but that didn’t stop the whole house being burnt to ashes.

The Municipal Chief Executive for Kintampo Municipal Assembly Mr. Isaac Donkor visited the scene with some officers from the Assembly including the Municipal Fire commander, and the Director of NADMO to ascertain the level of distraction coursed by the rain.

In an interview with the Municipal fire commander Mr. Domimic Turmu Prempier revealed that the fire outbreak was as a result of the rain lighting which occurred. He was of the view that anytime there is fire out-break, citizens try to put off the fire themselves, and only seek the assistance of the Fire Service when their efforts failed to yield results and by then the situation may have gotten out of hand.

He thus advised the citizens to always first call the fire service emergency line before any other persons would come to help.

Mr. Isaac Donkor MCE was very sad about the incident, because looking at what was left, the whole building has to be pulled down and Mr. Aparik now on retirement it would be very difficult for him and the family.

Mr. Isaac called on private individual and organizations to support Mr. Aparik with building materials and other items which can help him bounce back in life with the family.

But before that the Municipal Assembly and NADMO presented some relief items such as, four (4) student Mattresses, one (1) bag of 25Kgs rice, four (4) robber basin, four robber (4) bakes, ten (10) robber cups, ten (10) boxers of mosquito cruel and an-disclose amount of money.

AT Group of company limited which deals in contraction and mining in the country has supported Busuma community in kintampo Municipality, five (5) hospital beds, nebulizers, circumcision set, suturing set, and five (5) ceiling fans to the Busuama Health Care Centre.

 Short but colorful ceremony held at the forecourt of the community health Centre saw almost all the surrounding communities who came to grace this memorable occasion, Chiefs from the surrounding communities, assembly members, unit committee members were all present.

The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Kintampo Municipality Mr. Isaac Donkor in his address express his profound appreciation to all the nurses who accepting posting to all rural communities in Ghana and most especially Busuama to service Kintampo Municipality and mother Ghana at large.  He assured them of his support as well as his support of his government to achieve their resetting Ghana agenda.  He asked them not to hesitate to call on him if the need arise.

He asked nurses and the physician assistant to put this equipment’s donated to their outfit into good use, and encourage them to inculcate the habit of maintenance culture of the entire facility. Mr. Donkor also thanked and assured AT GROUP OF COMPANY LIMITED for their immense support given to Health Center and added that, “this equipment will help support healthcare delivery in Busuama and surrounding communities and even Kintampo Municipality as a hole.

The Physician Assistant and his team of nesses were very grateful to AT Group of Company and the Municipal Chief Executive for the emcees support given them and “plans were being made to visit him at his office to congratulate him in his new position and to tender their challenges to him”. He added.

The MCE with other dignities went round to inspect the facility.

As part of the Agenda for the ruling political party, National Democratic Congress (NDC) to Re-setting Ghana, the Kintampo Municipal Assembly who is headed by Mr. Isaac Donkor the representative of the President of the Republic of Ghana John Dramani Mahama in the Municipality had Departmental Herds Meeting and Staff durbar at the Kintampo Municipal Assembly Hall.

The main idea of the meeting with workers of the Municipal Assembly was to deliberate issues in relation with the development of the Kintampo Municipality and to introduce himself to all the Municipal Assembly staff he is to working with and to have in-depth knowledge of the activities in their various Departments and Units, challenges and other related issues that may have negativity in productivity.

In a shot address by the Municipal Chief Executive Mr. Isaac Donkor, outlined his Vision statement in five key areas which were; to strengthening Local Governance and transparency, he ensuring public trust, open communication, transparency and accountability in every aspect in the Municipality.

Under infrastructure development Mr. Donkor Spoke of improvement of roads networks, market upgrading, water system and not to forget of extension and maintain electrification projects in the Municipality.

The municipal chief Executive touched on Youth and women entrepreneurship, vocational training which will be a source of investment to the people who are our future leaders.

 In Agriculture and economic Development in the Municipality, he spoke of the potentiality of the municipality in the aspect of prioritizing agro processing, storage facilities to prevent linkages in our market and to boost productivity and income of the people and the Municipality at large.

In conclusion health, education and social services, will also be supported by improvement in schools’ infrastructure, healthcare access and sanitation in the kintampo Municipality.

MCE in his last remarks stated that, “I am not here to merely direct but to listen, learn and to lead with your support and he expect professionalism, innovation, and shared commitment to excellence”.

Herds of department delivered their various departmental activities, challenges and numbers of staff in the officers.

As part of the Kintampo Municipal Chief Executive Mr. Isaac Donkor Visit to Departments and Institutions in the Municipality to introduce himself and to have in-depth knowledge about their achievements and challenges to enable him work according to their challenges in the various sectors for the development of the municipality, chiefs and queen mothers were not left out in his visit.

Mr. Isaac Donkor paid a courtesy call to some chiefs and queen mothers in the Municipality to thank them for their prayer support and advice given to him at the time the president nominated him, according to him, at the time of his nomination, he called on them for their support and they did not let him down so for that matter his visit was to thank them and to seek their advice and direction for the development of Kintampo Municipality.

Mr. Donkor stated Kintampo, in the history of Ghana is one of the older town in the history but he has not seen Kintampo development, the Municipality is lacking in a lot of project which need awakeup call for the chiefs and people of the Municipality.

He also added that, “as a municipality what we need most for the development we are all talking about is peace, and unity among ourselves’. He said.

MCE could not conclude his address without mentioning the sale of government lands which would day be used for developmental project of the Municipality is been sold to private individual which is so much worry to him.

All chiefs visited were glad for his confirmation as the Municipal Chief Executive for Kintampo “for he is their son because his mother and father both come from Kintampo Municipality”.

In their word of advice, he was informed to try working with all the chiefs for peace and unity because disunity among the chiefs will not bring the development that is needed for the municipality.

Just as the MCE spoke of his doors being open to all, chiefs visited equally said “he is welcomed anytime he need advice” some were of the view that, MCE could lead them to the president of the Republic of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama to lay their needs before him most especially the idear of converting Kintampo Collage of Health and well-Being to a University status they added “since time memorial the people of Kintampo have never let the NDC party down with their vote” they said.

Chiefs and Queen mothers visited drew MCE attention to reckless driving of “Pragia” riders in town most especially the market days since he was the chairman of MUSEC, he was also advice not to make promises that cannot be for filled and that, stakeholder consultation should be done before working on projects because of misplace priorities.

Departmental heads part of the MCE entourage was advice to work for the development of Kintampo municipality but not to work for their own interest.