The Board Chairman of the Minerals Development Fund (MDF), Kweku Sakyi Addo, has emphasized that his outfit would continue to liaise with the various Local Management Committees (LMC) to ensure the sustainability of its funded facilities.
Kwaku Sakyi Addo and members of the board have inspected some MDF-funded projects in the Ashanti Region.
At Dadwen in the Adansi North District of the Ashanti Region, the Minerals Development Fund through the Local Management Committee has put up a 12-Seater Toilet Facility to help reduce open defecation.
Also in Wamase and Akrofuom in the Akrofuom District of the Ashanti Region, a 20-seater-toilet facility each has been constructed for residents.
Previously, residents engaged in open defecation.
At Ehsonyewodia, Obuasi East, a Community Center has also been handed over to the community.
The Fund also completed the Kokotuatia MA Basic School by adding a floor to the building.
The new floor has a computer laboratory, six-unit classroom, staff common room, and a headteacher’s office.
Speaking to the media on the sustainability of such projects, the Board Chairman of the Minerals Development Fund, Kwaku Sakyi Addo, urged the various LMCs to prioritize the maintenance of the facilities.
“I have absolutely no problem at all with the utilization of the funds, and I’m sure that I speak on behalf of the Board, the Administrator, and the management of the Minerals Development Fund. So from the tours that we have done, I am satisfied. We’ve seen a basic facility for small local communities. These have been executed by funding from the Minerals Development Fund through the local management committee. So we’re satisfied with the work that has been done by the LMC,” he said.
Maintaining structures
Kwaku Sakyi Addo also noted that there are structures in place to enforce strict maintenance of the facilities.
He said, “The money has to be properly overseen, properly accounted and plowed back to sustain the facilities, to repair and maintain the facilities so that they will last. I have absolutely no doubt that with the structure that has been put in place, which is a collective structure, involving the communities, I have no doubt that they will pay attention and check on one another, and ensure that years from now the facilities will continue to serve their purpose.”
