On the month Of May, 14th, 2024, Atiwa East District Assembly led by the DCE, Honourable Kwabena Panin Nkansah engages the people of Aworensua located within Kwedewaso area council. The purpose of the engagement was to bring out all issues relating to the community from the people, deliberate and to bring out the best possible solutions to these issues and other relational matters. The event was moderated by the director for NCCE in the person of Mr. Saviour Ametepe, and Mr. Prince Obeng Donkor the assistant information officer.The engagement witnesses the presence of Hon. Kwabena Panin Nkansah district chief executive, Mr. Shakil Kpedau Mahamood the district coordinating director, Mr. William Aseidu-Akrofi the district director for Agric, Miss. Effual Afful the district director for health, the district director for planning, the district director for environmental and sanitation, officer from the social welfare and community development, the right to information officer, the district director for NCCE, the chief and queen mother, the elders and other community stakeholders.PRESENTATIONSThe development planning officer in the person of Mr. Jerry Atitso, in his presentation highlighted on the developmental layout. The developmental layout of every community solely depends on the individuals he said. The reason for that is to foster easy accessibility of the community in emergency situation and other relational situations, and above all to beautify the community. He edged the chiefs, queen mothers and all other stakeholders to consult with the district assembly for technical assistant. To gain a developmental permit certification from the district assembly, the necessary documents as a requirement needed are the building drawings, the side plan of the land, indenture, and land allocation letter from the chief or the custodian of the land and must be submitted to the district assembly. Based on the submitted documents, officers from the assembly will be sent to the developmental land site for an inspection as to whether the land is suitable and fit for any developmental project before the developmental permit certification is issued to the individual to begin the project as the developmental drawing, and the side plans indicates.The event also paved way for the EPA officer also to highlight the community sanitation with regards to the cleaning of surroundings, putting a stop to open defecation, which is one of the driving forces of cholera disease outbreak. However, the officer voiced out some of the control measures as indicated by the World Health Organization which are the washing of hands before and after the use of any sanitary facilities, and having a toilet facility within every residential area.The NIA district director in the person of Mr. Jacob Oti Amankwah also made a presentation and said that pall pending cards have been resolved, and also distributed to the various communities and did acknowledge the assembly for their assistant towards the distribution exercise.There have been some changes when it comes to bearing a national or ecowas ID card he said, which is, the change of price of the premium package from 110 Ghana cedis to 310 Ghana cedis for new applicant at the regional level, but at zero cost at the district level. On both levels, applicants must be at the age of 15 from a point onwards. In addition, the event witnessed the NIA officer announce to the stakeholders of the government bringing an initiative onboard to register all children within the ages of 6 to 14 years on the NIA system.When it comes to replacement of NIA cards, the officer made it point blank to the stakeholders of the price been elevated to 150 Ghana cedis at the district level, and that of the premium package at the regional level is price at 400 Ghana cedis. The reason to the elevation of prices is the cost of the cards used in the NIA process procured from the Management Identity System (MIS). In addition, for update of records on the NIA system which is not meant to be captured on the card at the district level is cost free, and for information needed to the captured on the card subsequently requires a fee of 60 Ghana cedis, but for regional level is 355 Ghana cedis.The event again witnesses the presentation from the immigration officer in the person of Mr. Osei. He said, the Ghana immigration service is responsible for all foreigners wellbeing within the country including their arrival and exist. Foreigners from the ecowars’ region in Ghana have a maximum duration of 90 days according to the law, after the stipulated timeframe the law treats that individual as illegal. For a foreigner to work within of the confines of Ghana must have a certification work permit for three (3) months, and must be renewed after the stipulated time. Ghana resident permit is issued to the foreigner if and only if he is not a treat to the state and to the residence. In substance, the immigration officers were found at only the borders of Ghana but now found within the country. Reason to this he said, is to arrest all illegal foreigners who does not have necessary legal documents, and did pass the unapproved route into the country to foster the security strength in the country.The event also witnessed the presentation from the district director for the education directorate in the person of Miss Pearl Leonel Acquah. She made mention of children with a mental construct of saying to his or her parent as to when the child wants to do something at his or her own accord to start school immediately. She edged the parents to make provision of the child school accessories such as books, pencils, and many more and stop waiting on the government to do that for them. The director stressed some of the reasons why most children don’t take their education seriously because of teenage peer pressure, negative influence from social media, the misuse of mobile phones and other relative electronic gadgets. The director edged the parents to see to it that time spent on electrical gadgets is of minimal. The government putting temporarily on hold to teachers deployed to their workstations across the country due to financial constraint was also stressed on by the district director at the event. She went on to say that the government is now on a financial loan from the IMF to support the country financial crisis. As a result, deprived community schools are lacking teachers, and notwithstanding, teachers posted at those deprived communities are not motivated to stay and to carry out their duties. The director said those teachers seek for transfer to other places where it is more convenient and suitable for teaching. In speaking was the officer for the Community development and social welfare in the person of Mr. Emmanuel Boateng, highlighting on the core function of the department which is enhancement of wealth and protection of every child in the country. He said, the department is under a journey of creating awareness of child abuse, child labor, teenage pregnancy, which is significantly increasing, gender based violent, drug abuse and many more. He added, what is seen and reported to the department from communities is child labor. The director expatiated, children under the age of 18 years in accordance with the law and are exposed in hard labor by parent or anyone of that sort, having negative impart to the child health, education, anything of that sort, hindering the development of the child is called child labor. Activities parent subject children to must be educational wise since children normally learn effectively in physical activities. The department also focuses on people with disabilities (pwd’s). For such people, the director said, are assisted with financial aid and any other from the assembly’s finance common funds but such people must be first registered. LEAP is also one of government initiatives to assist vulnerable needly elderly people from the ages of 65 and above, orphan children, and person with severely disabled. In speaking again was the DCE, Hon Kwabena Panin Nkansah making a quick reminder of the Bizbox project currently ongoing across Ghana in every district prefinanced by mastercard foundation in collaboration with Ghana Enterprise Agency with the aim to serve people with the age range between 18 to 35 years as regards to agriculture businesses. USTAT was also highlighted by the DCE. He said, USTAT is similar to bizbox project but this time focusing on people in microbusinesses of any sort with the aim to reduce employment rate in the Ghana and of the world. An initiative has been implemented by the government in regard to the planting for food and job initiative said by the DCE during his presentation. He said, the core function of the aggregator is to supply all what farmers will be needed to start farming at the cost of the government without anything being payable from the side of the farmer, but only deduct what is been spent on during the farming process at the time of harvest.In speaking was the DCE, Hon Kwabena Panin Nkansah making a quick reminder of the hardship occurred since the year 2021 as regards to the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, disrupting global food supplying chain across in the world market, significant decrease in world GDP and the world economy for which Ghana is not excluded. With regards to this, the DCE made a standpoint and said that the world is facing crises now and that we should not always put blame on the government. The DCE made highlighted on the Bizbox project currently ongoing across Ghana in every district prefinanced by mastercard foundation in collaboration with Ghana Enterprise Agency with the aim to serve people with the age range between 18 to 35 years as regards to agriculture businesses. USTAT was also highlighted by the DCE. He said, USTAT is similar to bizbox project but this time focusing on people in microbusinesses of any sort with the aim to reduce employment rate in the Ghana and of the world. The assembly is ever ready to give out scholarships to students in-need for assistance to further their education only when the condition for qualification is met aside assisting the education directorate in so many ways. The event finally heard the announcement from the DCE about the TVET being operational purposely serving mostly ethe youth who want to advance in their skills.OPEN FORUMBelow are some of the issues that arose during the event• Difficulty in coming to the premises of the Assembly to collect the NIA card due to the long distance from the community and the nature of their work. • Reasons for person with the age of 36 and above not considered to be part of the program.• Extension of electricity poles to some areas and acquisition of electrical meters.• Pollution of water bodies use for farming as a result of galamsey activities.• Some of the LEAP beneficiaries did not receive their share of the money since they registeredBelow are some responses addressing the arose issues• Card bearers can sent someone on their behave to come of the card for them if the nature his or her job Is time demanding.• The assembly will see to it that the electrical poles and meters will be requisited from the ECG and installed.• This is a national issue but whatever the district does curb the radical contamination of water bodies will be done.• The exclusion of the person above 35 is part of the requirement set by the authorities and there is nothing the GES can do.• This could be as a result of misinformation on the part of the applicant in the time of registration and when such happens the Assembly can do anything about it.