Upper West Chiefs Congratulate Government on Implementing Poverty Reduction Programs

General News on Tuesday, June 4th, 2019

Source: ghananewsagency.org

2019-06-04

Naa Sadiki Galla II, head of Tanina in Wa West District, in the Upper West West region, commended the government for implementing social intervention programs aimed at reducing poverty in the country.

Addressing Muslims as part of Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia's tour in Ramadan in the Upper West region, Naa Galla said that 23 students from the Tanina community have been enrolled in the program. Free SHS in 2017, while 27 students were enrolled in 2018, a university year. alleviated the financial burden of parents.

He said the Tanina community had received three mechanized boreholes from the government under the One Million Riding Policy, while the West West District Assembly had built a mechanized borehole to deal with the crisis. water in the community.

"Our community is connected to the national network that has been stuck for many years," he said.

He also said that the government had provided a store under the Plant for Food and Employment (PFJ) program to reduce the cost of transporting fertilizer from the district capital to the community.

He also said that his people appreciated the political program of the Livelihoods Empowerment PNEs (LEAP), while the government had set up a school block to solve the problem of infrastructure. in their housing system and services.

He called for the protection of security in case of armed robbery, which harmed the community and its surroundings because of the poor road network.

He called on the government to turn its CHPS complex into a health center to promote health and provide them with a dam to promote dry season agriculture.

Mahamudu Bawumia, Vice President of Ghana, said that the philosophy and vision of the government led by Nana Akufo-Addo was transformational inclusive leadership by introducing flagship programs for the benefit of every Ghanaian, without discrimination.

He said that the government for the first time in its history created the Ministry of Development of Downtown and Zongo, as well as the Zongo Development Fund, aimed at developing the 180 communities of Zongo in the country.

He added that the government had recruited about 3,000 Islamic instructors all over the country to teach Muslim students and was planning to set up Islamic training schools all over the country.

He said the government had set up about 275 ambulances for each constituency under the One Ambulance by District promise and that ambulances would arrive in Ghana in August of this year to improve health care.

He stated that the government had obtained GHS352507.00 for the award of contracts to the 3.5-km Tanina-Polee road, the Polee-Nakor road at 3.2 kilometers, to Poyentanga-Jabob- Buli at 12 kilometers and that work would begin in a few weeks.

The Vice President handed over 40 sacks of rice, 10 cans of sugar, 10 boxes of 20,000 GHS oil for the completion of the mosque, 2,000 GHS to chefs and 1,000.00 GHS for women .

The vice president was accompanied by members of Parliament, the state minister to the presidency and Dr. Hafiz Bin-Salih, regional minister of the Upper West, among other dignitaries.