Africa-Press – Ghana. The Obuasi Municipal Assembly has initiated plans to construct a new and befitting office complex for the Obuasi Divisional Police Command. The move is to put up a permanent office for the command, which is currently housed in rented private property.
Mr Elijah Adansi Bonah, the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), who announced this in his sessional address to the Assembly at its first meeting for the year, said a two-acre land had been secured at Bidiem for the project.
He said the Assembly was in discussion with traditional authorities and the Ghana Police Service about the establishment of a Police Training School in the Municipality.
On security, the MCE said the Municipality had been peaceful as a result of effective collaboration between the police command and other security agencies.
“The Security services in its quest to maintain the existing peace within the Municipality has employed strategies such as Day and night patrols, snap checks, crime detection, arrest and prosecution of offenders as well as the provision of security at vital installations and institutions within the Obuasi enclave,” he stated.
The MCE also spoke about the ongoing 100-bed Trauma Hospital at Bidiem, saying that the project was steadily progressing. He said the project when completed, would not only serve the people of Obuasi but also its adjoining districts.
The facility comes with three operating theatres, recovery rooms, a resuscitation room, a plaster room and a diagnostic centre. The project, according to the MCE, was expected to be completed within the stipulated 30-month period.
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