PRESIDENT JOHN Atta Mills yesterday ended his three-day tour of the Greater Accra Region with a promise to residents of Ashaiman that he will ensure that funds are released for the completion of some road projects started in the area.
According to him, his government was committed to ensuring that the area got its share of government developmental projects.
He promised to ensure that all roads under constructions in the area are completed on time.
The president gave the assurance when he addressed a section of students of the Ashaiman Senior High School (ASHAISEC) at a mini durbar as part of activities marking his tour of the Greater Accra Region yesterday.
He visit also saw the commissioning of a dining hall facility for the school.
The head-teacher of ASHAISEC, Emmanuel Ofoe Fiamawhle, appealed to the president to convert the only public SHS in the densely-populated community into a boarding school to accommodate more students from the area and its environs and provide them with more educational infrastructure facilities to support teaching and learning.
He also called on the government to provide adequate support for the completion of a six-unit classroom block which was initiated by the Ashaiman Municipal Assembly (ASHMA) with an amount of GH�400,000, to ease congestion in the school�s classrooms.
Earlier at the Kpone Sanitary landfill site, the president tasked the contractor of the project, Philip Rubin of Tahal Consulting Engineer Limited, to ensure that his company completes the project within the scheduled time in June 2012 and decongest the existing landfill site after completion.
According to the constructor, the waste site, which was started in February 2010 with 100 percent finance from the World Bank, at an estimated cost of GH�60million, would see to separation of rubber from other waste materials which, according to him, could be used for gas when properly managed.
At GRIDCO, the president urged workers of the company to continue their hard work, saying, �I give my word that government would continue to support you in all your doings.�
He later visited Wahome, a steel manufacturing company where he interacted with management and workers of the facility. He mentioned that his government had created an initial job of 10,000 and promised to ensure that several job opportunities are created.
He promised to commission a project that had been started at the facility in November next year.
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