The Ministry for Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development, has handed over vehicles and working tools to the Department of Parks and Gardens, one of its implementing Agencies.
The items include a tipper truck, two KIA trucks fitted with poly tanks, water pumping machines, a Toyota Landcruiser Prado vehicle.
Others include 14 motorbikes, three desktop computers, two laptop computers, 29 mowing machines and three drive mowers. The rest are 24 chain saw machines, 24 grass cutters, four poly tanks and 11 ladders.
Handing over the equipment on behalf of the sector Minister, the Deputy Minister, Hon. Martin Adjei-Mensah Korsah noted that essential resources enhanced performance, thus the donation was to equip the Department to beautify and maintain among others things, urban road medians as per its mandate.
He acknowledged the challenges facing the Department and assured the staff that all was being done to solve them.
Hon. Korsah commended the Departments for its commitment to exceeding its revenue target from 2019 despite its numerous challenges. He, therefore, urged staff to put the items to good use and called on the public to support the Department to enable it to perform it mandate effectively.