Queen-mother 'Weeps' Over Lack of Development In Sakyikrom Noka
Residents in Noka, a farming community within the Sakyikrom Traditional Area in the Nsawam Adoagyiri Municipality of the Eastern Region have expressed worry over the lack of social amenities in the area, thus calling on government of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to come to their aid, so as to alleviate the suffering of the people.
Freeman Koryekpor Awlesu Greater 
Residents in Noka, a farming community within the Sakyikrom Traditional Area in the Nsawam Adoagyiri Municipality of the Eastern Region have expressed worry over the lack of social amenities in the area.
Consequently, the residents called on government of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to come to their aid, so as to alleviate the suffering of the people.
According to the Paramount Queen-mother of Pom town who doubles as the Krontihemaa of the Akwamu Traditional Area, Nana Baffuor Oponwaa II who made the call on behalf of residents of Sakyikrom Noka, the residents of the area (Sakyikrom Noka) under the Akwamu Traditional Area have been neglected of the provision of roads, school facilities, school, health facility, potable water and toilet facility.
Addressing a press conference in Sakyikrom Noka on Wednesday July 13, 2022, the Queen-mother lamented over the increasing rate of youth unemployment in Sakyikrom Noka, saying that the situation has made disproportionate numbers of youth involved with alcohol and other drugs in the area.
He pointed out that the lack of public toilet facilities in the area making majority of the residents of Sakyikrom Noka to practice open defecation in bushes risking their lives being attacked by dangerous reptiles.
She pointed out that since the people of Sakyikrom Noka settled on the land in 1885 due to the lack of the public toilet, scores of the residents chosen to defecate in fields, bushes, forests and cemetery, the development which the queen described worry and unacceptable.
She recommended that stakeholders under Nsawam Adoagyiri Municipal Assembly to should ensure the provision of public toilets to the residents of Sakyikrom Noka.
For their part, some residents who spoke to Soirreenews.com, blamed the Member of Parliament (MP) for Nsawam Adoagyiri Constituency Honourable Frank Annoh-Dompreh and the Municipal District Executive of the Nsawam Adoagyiri Municipal Assembly, Mr Isaac Kwadwo Buabeng have ignored the numerous appeals the residents have been making.
They also complained of the continuous practices of some recalcitrant residents to turn their public cemetery into the refuses dumping site, the situation they are lamenting was posing serious health danger to the residents in the area.
They pointed out the only choice left is for them to boycott and ban political activities in the area and declared that “no potable water toilet, school, road, no vote.”
