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The management of Yilo Krobo Municipal Assembly led by the Municipal NADMO Director, Mr. Michael Jackson Bruku today, Monday the 13th of June 2022 met with some scrap dealers in the Municipal capital, Somanya to streamline their activities.For sometimes now, it had been alleged that some miscreants used to hide behind the operation of collecting scraps to steal people’s items from their homes where these miscreants met the absence of households.Consequently, given the recent threat of terrorism and government’s decision

The Ghana Health Service (GHS), on Thursday, the 21st of April 2022 rolled out its second phase of its National Vaccination campaign in Somanya in the Eastern Region which was said to be one of the areas to have recorded low vaccination so far.The first phase of the National Vaccination campaign was rolled out in February and as of April 14th, 2022, it was indicated that about 14 million Ghanaians were believed to have taken the dose and according to

On the 21st of April 2022, the Yilo Krobo Municipal Chief Executive, Honourable Eric Tetteh, the Eastern regional minister, Honourable Seth Kwame Acheampong, the Director General for Ghana Health Service Dr. Patrick Kuma Aboagye and the Paramount Chief for the Yilo Krobo Traditional Area in collaboration with the Yilo Krobo Municipal health Directorate has officially inaugurated the Yilo Krobo Municipal Hospital.The eighty bed state-of-the-art hospital is equipped with ultramodern diagnostic machines and have several departments and units such as, radiological

The Yilo Krobo Municipal Health Administration (MHA) on Friday, the 18th of February 2022 had its Annual Performance Review Meeting which also provided update on the COVID-19 cases and vaccination exercises undertaken so far in the Municipality. The purpose for the Performance Review therefore was to evaluate the MHA's operation as far as health delivery in the Municipality is concerned to assess successes and challenges of the year 2021 to inform its health delivery strategies in 2022. Notwithstanding some challenges faced

The Yilo Krobo Municipal Assembly on Monday, the 28th of February 2022 provisionally took over a Mango Processing Factory Building constructed by Degeon Investments Limited at Akorley in the Municipal capital of Somanya. The provisional handing over of the building was necessary to pave way for the second phase of the project that would allow for installation of machines and equipment for the actual processing of mangoes to put the factory in full operation. The brief ceremony which saw the handing

The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Hon. Eric Tetteh on Thursday, the 6th of January 2022 together with the Municipal Coordinating Director (MCD), Mr. Eric Hini and District Police Commander, Andrews Anyani met with the leadership of the Somanya Drivers’ Unions comprising of the GPRTU, Corporative and Global Millennium Union.The meeting which took place at the Akutunya Lorry Station was to engage the Drivers' Unions for their corporation to bring sanity on the major roads within Somanya, the Municipal capital.In his

My commitment as Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) is to ensure the development of the Yilo Krobo Municipality and I need everybody on board. I therefore do not care whether those who are committed to this vision are members of the NPP, NDC, CPP and PPP inter alia; these were the words of the MCE of Yilo Krobo Municipality, Hon. Eric Tetteh as the Municipality marks its district version of the National Farmers’ Day yesterday, the 3rd of December 2021 held

After its last Stakeholder Meeting held on the 16th of December 2021 following the blackout exacted on the Krobo land by the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) for seven (7) continuous day; from Monday, 6th – Sunday 12th December 2021 for what some believed was a punishment meted out to the Krobo land en mass for owing and refusing to ECG Bills, the ECG held yet another Stakeholder Meeting today in the Yilo Krobo Municipal Assembly Hall, the purpose of

On Thursday 14th October 2021, the MCE together with management of YKMA visited the KONO. In his speech, Hon. Tetteh petitioned the traditional leaders to support his tenure as he’s willing to work together with all traditional leaders. Also, he stated his intention to improve sanitation in the municipality since it helps in maintaining health and also increase the life spans of people. Therefore developing a sanitation program in Yilo is a requisite step and would help build better health

The Assembly members of Yilo Krobo Municipal  on Wednesday, 29th September 2021, overwhelmingly endorsed Hon. Eric Tetteh, the President’s nominee for the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) position. She secured 64 votes, representing 100% out of 64 total votes cast in an exercise supervised by officials of the Electoral Commission (EC). The exercise was in line with Article 243 (1) of the 1992 Constitution and Section 20(1) of the Local Governance Act 2016, (Act 936) which stipulates that all MMDCEs should be