News:
August 17, 2020
Member of Parliament for Okaikwei Central, Patrick Yaw Boamah has thanked the President Nana Akufo-Addo’s government for a facility approved by Parliament on Monday, August 10, 2020 to provide fifty bridges across the country.
He was appreciative of the twenty-eight million Euros facility and thanked the government on behalf of his constituents for the facility.
According to him, lives have been lost in his constituency in places like Abeka and Lapaz and at a press briefing, he thanked God for the facility.
“The N-1, you know I have been advocating for this bridges and I am happy to use the medium to announce to my constituent this good news”.
He further recounted that last week the House approved a facility of over fourteen million Ghana cedis to provide over seven point five kilometers of asphaltic road in his constituency, and lauded government for the intervention.
Meanwhile, he expressed the Foreign Affairs Committee’s condolence to the people of Lebanon over a sad incident which occurred in the port of Beirut where about two thousand seven hundred tons of ammonia nitrate exploded sending a worrying signal to the world.
“We are told over hundred and sixty people died and hundreds of people injured, with thousands displaced. Government of Ghana has issued an official statement on that and the Foreign Affairs Minister visiting their Embassy in Ghana”.
The former chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee noted that there are a lot of Lebanese who live and work in Ghana and he is expressing sympathy to them and let them know Ghana is with them through this difficult time.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com