The persistence of the Deputy Minister for Water Resources, Works and Housing, Dr. Hannah Louisa Bissiw, has led to the discovery of a GH¢ 20,000 bore hole drilled in 2003.
According to the Greater Accra Regional Hydrologic Engineer of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) Jerry Asigbey, the agency sank the borehole in 2003 with assistance from the DANIDA phase three project and was intended to be mechanized to serve communities in the area.
Mr. Asigbey says “However, try as we did, we could not secure funding from the government to complete the mechanization process”.
Mechanization of the bore hole will cost US$ 910 .It is 80.75 metres deep with the capacity to produce 10,667 gallons of water per hour. When complete, this bore-hole sited deep in the forest around Adoteiman, off the Adenta Aburi Highway, would be able to serve Amrahia, Ashiyie, Amanfrom, Adenta and all their surrounding villages with water.
This would alleviate the acute water crisis in those vicinities which keep getting worse by the day; Adenta has been without water for close to three weeks.
It took some determination from Dr. Bissew who was on familiarization visit and her team some effort to located the abandoned borehole. The team had to abandon their vehicles about three kilometers to go in search of the location of the bore hole.
An octogenarian farmer, Cephas Korku Ocloo, who was on his farm, about 500 meters from the search location had to led the team to the drilling point which had overgrown with shrubs.
Mr. Asigbey told the minister that the CWSA has the expertise to provide mechanized bore-holes throughout Accra but due to lack of funds, these plans have not seen much progress.
He asked government to make funds available, saying, “If GWCL needs $10 million in a year, just 20 % of that can help CWSA to do a lot of work to complement GWCL’s efforts.
She also visited the Oyibi, where the community is served from a mechanized bore-hole constructed by the CWSA. The systems manager, Angelina Adoglah-Mensah said the system which is on a dual bore-hole produces a total of 57,200 gallons (260 cubic meters) in a day, serving all the surrounding communities including the Good News Theological College, Ghana Christian College and the hamlets around Oyibi.
Dr. Bissiw urged them to use 10% of revenue they retain to develop household toilet facilities for the people in order to help in achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) in sanitation.
By Justice Lee Adoboe (Financial Intelligence)
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