The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly is set to explore all avenues to woo investors. These investors are expected to go into areas of mutual interest and development.
Kumasi is the second largest city in the country after the capital Accra. It is for this and many other reasons why the Assembly is exploring all avenues to get investors to the metropolis.
Speaking in an interview, with GBC’s Ashanti Regional Correspondent Georgina Ama Ankumah, the Metropolitan Chief Executive Osei Assibey Antwi disclosed that management of the Assembly is exploring all avenues to woo investors to the metropolis for ultra modern Infrastructural development.
He said the Assembly is currently in talks with various investors for the implementation of a Waste-to- Energy Recycling Plant project in the metropolis.
Mr. Assibey Antwi said the plant when installed will address the disposal of the ever increasing tonnes of solid waste the Assembly is currently grappling with.
Also the Assembly is in talks and negotiations with various investors who have shown interest in providing public transport, ultra modern infrastructure and facilities especially for the Bus Rapid Transit for which the pilot phase using three buses has commenced on the Ejisu route.
According to the MCE Sixty buses has also been allocated by government to the KMA for this project.
Mr. Assibey Antwi said in the Assembly’s quest to provide ultra modern infrastructure can only be achieved by close collaboration with the private sector.
It is for this reason that the Assembly is resorting more to public private partnership to bridge the infrastructural gab since the Assembly’s annual budget alone cannot timely deliver the needed infrastructure for the metropolis for it to be not only a safe investment and tourism destination but a smart city.
