ANNUAL PROGESS REPORT, 2014
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The mobile provided door to door library service to 3 schools in Accra for
the fourth quarter. Seven hundred and fifty – six (756) pupils from the
various schools such as Odorgonno Model Basic School (352), Holy Child
Catholic (99) and Anyaa Cluster of Schools (315) participated in the
activity.
AYAWASO EAST SUB METROPOLITAN COUNCIL
During the period under review, the female labourers swept all the ceremonial
roads within the sub metro and the male labourers desilted the drains. The
compaction truck and the Bola Taxi went round all these roads and collected
heaps of refuse and sent them to the final disposal site.
The sub metro also organized clean up exercises prior to the declaration of every
first Saturday of the month as National Sanitation Day, where the citizenry were
supposed to undertake clean-up exercise, throughout the country. Clean-up
exercises were undertaken in areas like Nima Cluster of schools, nima highway,
Maamobi markets and these involved school children, personnel of te Sub metro
as well as the National Service Secretariat and the Assembly Members. In
attendance was the Vice President of the Republic of Ghana and the Minister for
Local Government and Rural Development.
NATIONAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION
The Annual report covers the period January – December, 2014. The National
Disaster Organization Management (NADMO) is an organization under the
Ministry of Interior and one of the departments legally established within the
confines of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly with ten (10) Sub-Metros which
includes; Ablekuma Central, Ablekuma North, Ablekuma South, Ayawaso
Central, Ayawaso East, Ayawaso West, Ashiedu Keteke, Okaikoi North, Okaikoi
South and Osu Klottey Sub Metros. The office is mandated by law to reduce the
impact, severity and risk of disaster both natural and man-made. The year under
review saw the office undertaking some activities such as disaster reports,
administration, workshops, public educational campaign programs, suggestions,
recommendations etc.
Ablekuma Central Sub-Metro
During the year under review, the Sub Metro experienced series of fire
outbreaks which affected personal properties. The Sub-Metro also organized
clean-up activities such as desilting of gutters and education on preventive
measures in and around the communities to sensitize them on the dangers of
flooding. The Sub-Metro worked closely with building inspectors to check
buildings that pose threats to life and unauthorized structures built on water ways.
The Sub-Metro scheduled to have public education on disaster related issues for
the following associations which did not materialize due to clash in programmes.
GPRTU branch (Takoradi station, Kaneshie)
Market women around the Takoradi Station