The Abesim-Ankrana community in the Sunyani Metropolis will no longer share the Ankrana stream with stray animals like dogs, pigs and cattle.

Besides, the perennial acute water shortages, experienced during the dry seasons, due to the drying up of the only water body in the community is also a thing of the past now.

During a visit to the community, the more than 600 residents, particularly women and girls, could not hide their joy, and took turns to commend the Absa Bank Ghana for putting up a mechanised borehole in the area to readily provide them with clean water.

The facility has three standing pipes and a reserve poly tank.

However, they told Sompa FM in an interview that their only challenge now was the deplorable condition of the wooden bridge on the stream and poor drainage system.

The bridge, according to the women, was always a death trap for school children during the rainy seasons as the pupils find it extremely difficult to cross the stream.

Mr Kingsley Kusi Appiah, the Assemblyman for the Abesim-Ankobea Electoral Area also told Sompa FM he lobbied for the water project which hitherto remained the pressing need for the community and thanked the Sunyani branch of Absa for the facility.

Mrs Grace Anim-Yeboah, the Business Banking Director of Absa Bank, told the GNA the construction of the facility was in line with the Bank's Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme to give back to society.

Mr Augustine Gyan, the Sunyani branch Manager of Absa Bank also re-echoed the readiness of the bank to tackle the social needs of the people, and asked the community to maintain the facility.

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