The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has secured the services of the Ghana Armed Forces to train the assembly�s metro guards.
An officer from the Northern Command has sbeen seconded as a security liaison to facilitate the training.
Subsequently, the guards have begun a medical screening exercise to determine their fitness before they commence training under the watch of officers from the the Northern Commad of the GAF.
The training involved work ethics, endurance drills, first aid, martial arts including judo, karate-do, and taekwondo.
The Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE) of KMA, Mr. Kojo Bonsu, announced this at the first ordinary meeting of the assembly in Kumasi last Tuesday.
He announced a number of projects which were in the pipeline to transform Kumasi into a modern city. These include the sky train project, installation of CCTV cameras under the Urban Development Grant III, greening of Kumasi into a proper Garden City, and rebranding.
The MCE told the meeting that the assembly had signed a memorandum of understanding with the Bunengi Group of South Africa for the implementation of a mass urban transport project to be known as the �Kumasi Sky Train Project.�
He also mentioned the greening exercise known as the Kumasi Urban Forestry Project, which the KMA was preparing to undertake to restore Kumasi to it its status as the Garden City, and said the project would be pursued serious.
As a sequel to that, a planning committee comprising officials of the KMA and the Forestry Services Division (FSD) was to nurse a number of carefully selected seedings, which are able to withstand harsh weather conditions to be planted on the city�s driveways, school compounds, and along ceremonial roads from April 14-16, this year.
The target is to plant at least one million trees by 2017.
Plans, he said, were also far advanced to expand the new sanitation model which focused on sweeping of streets in the night and procurement of more communal containers to facilitate the expansion and evacuation waste.
Mr Bonsu said in order to have a comprehensive inventory of all the assembly�s property, a property management consultant had been contracted to take stock of all assets of the assembly, build a database and design a computer software for its effective management.
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