(VIDEO)Abuakwa South MCE Disburses Items Worth ₵85,000.00 To Persons With Disability, 4th Time In A Year

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Persons with disability in the Abuakwa South Municipality in the eastern region have once again received items worth eighty five thousand Ghana cedis (₵85,000.00) from the Assembly.

This is the fourth time in a year PWD’s in the municipality have benefited.

In all, 35 persons with disability benefited this time around as indicated by the municipal chief executive in his speech.

“Government has committed ₵85,000 to purchase items for Persons with disability in Abuakwa south municipality. The aim of government is to teach them how to fish not how to eat. So upon our interrogation with them 35 persons will benefit in this disbursement and it is based on their requests. Out of the 35 beneficiaries, 28 will take home items for trade, 3 also will have training fees (school fees) while four others will have theirs as medical assistance. This clearly shows government’s intention of teaching you how to fish”. – Hon. Kojo Ofori-safo said.

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The hardworking MCE added that those who have still not been captured will also have their equal share and therefore need to exercise patience for he trusts his government will deliver.

Hon. Kojo Ofori-safo used the opportunity to thank the gathering for maintaining H.E. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and Hon. Samuel Atta Akyea as the president and MP respectively in the just ended December 7 general election.

The beneficiaries also expressed their profound gratitude to the assembly and government for keeping to their promise.

The presiding officer of the municipality also urged the beneficiaries to practice maintainance culture and to put to good use the items received.

Present at the ceremony at the forecourt of the municipal assembly were the executives and staff of municipal Social Welfare, members and executives of the Abuakwa south federation of disables, Assembly members, staff of the assembly, the municipal Coordinating Director, Municipal finance officer and others.