KUMASI ZOO ADJUDGED BEST TOURIST CENTRE IN 2013

-
   The Kumasi Zoological Garden popularly known as Kumasi Zoo has been recognized as the Best Tourist Attraction in the Ashanti region for 2013. The Ghana Tourist Authority, GTA has therefore given the management of the Zoo a Certificate of Excellence and a Citation in appreciation of the contribution of the facility to the overall socio-economic growth of the country. 




One of the many animal exhbits at the Kumasi Zoo
The Kumasi Zoo had to compete with attractions in the wildlife sub-sector in the Ashanti region such as the Bobiri Butterfly Sanctuary at Kubease in the Ejisu-Juaben Municipality, Manhyia Palace which has a number of wild birds, the Bonfobri and Owabi wildlife sanctuaries.

The Manhyia Palace has over the years been recognized as one of the best managed and visited tourist places in the region. Speaking in an interview with Ashanti Today in Kumasi, the Manager of the Zoo, Stephen Tamanja noted that it is the first time ever that the facility has received such a public recognition.

The achievement, according to him, has not only enhanced the attraction of the Zoo such that patronage of it by members of the public is likely to increase, but has also proven people who consider the Zoo as insignificant in the scheme of national development
wrong.Such critics, the Manager said are trying hard to get the facility relocated from Kumasi.

Mr. Tamanja said apart from recording a consistent increased annual income and contributing in no small way to the national revenue, the Zoo, due to its strategic location, plays other important functions in the fields of education, research, beautification of the city as well as  recreation for the general public.

The Zoo’s Manager recognized the Muslim community in particular for their high patronage of the facility during their festive occasions, which, according to him, continues to be a major boost for the visits and revenue generation of the Zoo.

 Mr. Tamanja called on both well meaning individuals and groups both in the public and private sectors to help the management to rehabilitate the weak infrastructure, especially the cages that house the animals to maintain the Zoo for the good of the society.     

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

JUTE FACTORY IS BACK

-
Image
the administrative block under rehabilitation At long last, the much talked about defunct GIHOC Fibre manufacturing Company popularly known as the Jute Factory, is to be back in operations very soon.  Ashanti Today can confirm that work is feverishly ongoing towards the revival of the once golden sacks manufacturing company with the first production expected in the first quarter of next year.  It is a public-private partnership with a wholly Ghanaian company, Jute Mills Ghana Limited being the operator and has already sunk about five million Ghana Cedis to revamp the company.  The Jute Factory is located within the industrial area of Kaase.  It has been on divestiture for about 20 years now with successive governments paying lip-service to revamp it.   The old machinery at main factory to be replaced soon  It is one project that is dear to the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu, who has used almost every opportunity with business people and investors wh
Read more

THE STATE OF KUMASI'S 'INDUSTRIAL AREA

-
The once Industrial enclave of the Ashanti region within the Kumasi metropolis is fast losing its status as the nerve centre of jobs for the people.     This is due to the collapse of most of the companies in quick succession in  the last few years for various reasons. Background Industrialization was a key component of the first wholly indigenous government of Ghana led by Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. The Ashanti region was not left out in this drive which was meant to create decent jobs for the residents, particularly the youth.  Asokwa, Ahinsan, Kaase, Atonsu and Kyirapatre were the communities that became what is known as the ‘Industrial Area’ of Ashanti from the early 60s.  The christening of this enclave as the ‘Industrial Area’ was the people’s appreciation of the numerous state and privately owned companies that were sited there.  These communities fall within present day Asokwa Constituency which is in the western part of the metropolis from the Accra d
Read more

KWAMANG SHS NEEDS URGENT HELP

-
Image
New Campus of the Kwamang Presby SHS The Kwamang Presby Senior High/Technical School in the Sekyere Central district of Ashanti needs an urgent external intervention to address some of its pressing basic needs to function very well.  A visit by Ashanti Today to the school’s premises revealed that the school does not have an administrative block to administer affairs of the school for which reason the Headmistress, the Bursar and another staff are sharing one room which has been partitioned, while the Assistant Headmaster, the rest of the Accounts staff among other administrative officers are also working from an improvised classroom. Anybody who visits the Kwamang Presby Senior High Technical school for the first time will unavoidably take it for a basic school.  This is more so when it appears to be perching on the premises of the local Junior High School as its old site.  The school is wallowing in a myriad of challenges that are seriously militating against
Read more