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THE KUMASI Metropolitan Assembly has factored the Comprehensive Street naming project in its Action Plan for 2014, having approved GH�1 million to continue the contemporary street naming of the Garden City, which aims at providing modern addressing system. The President has tasked MMDCES to speed up work on the street naming and address system in their various MMDAs, since that will be used to assess their performance as MMDCES in 18 months. Mr. Kofi Owusu-Bempah, the Chief Executive officer of ASI Zipcode System Limited, revealed to The Chronicle that the street naming project of the garden city will see greater stride, since the KMA has made funds available. He said his company is now challenged to hit the ground running. He noted that Kumasi is far ahead in the addressing and street naming exercise and that the release of funds by the KMA will help fast track the work before the President�s deadline. �We are done with Adum and we shall launch it and make the Adum map available to taxi drivers to help them to be familiar with the map,� he noted, adding �all taxi drivers have to get the Adum map for study�. The ASI Zipcode boss said a correct suit address was imperative in our development as country, saying �it is life and death in times of emergency, and the better the description of the exact location, the easier we get emergency assistance. This can save life and time�, noted. He indicated that in the distribution of letters, �we need a modern address system to enhance the delivery of hardcopy letters and other information to our exact locations�. The ASI Director stated that contemporary address system will help to locate people without difficulty since particulars of people have been captured on a database to give comprehensive details of people and places, to be made available on the internet which is the new neighbourhood. Mr. Owusu-Bempah noted that the street naming project will speed up the rate at which intelligence are gathered in Ghana by the securities agents to clamp down on miscreants in our vicinities.