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General News on Tuesday, January 29, 2019
Source: Mohammed Saani Ibrahim
2019-01-29
Dr. Mustapha Abdul Hamid is the Minister in charge of Downtown Development and Zongo.
Minister of Inner-City and Zongo Development said his ministry was responsible for resolving and developing the Zongos and Inner-cities.
Minister Sheikh Mustapha Abdul Hamid said the ministry, despite its difficulties, has performed wonderfully well and is on track to fulfill its mandate.
He therefore hailed the efforts of his predecessor, the Hon. Boniface Abubakar for laying the foundation for the new ministry.
Dr. Mustapha Abdul Hamid made a comment when he took his turn in the series "Meet The Press" to address a representative cross-section of the media regarding his department's programs, achievements and perspectives for 2019 .
A disadvantaged neighborhood development council was created to help put the ministry on its guard so as not to be biased in its activities.
In addition, a draft law on the Zongo Development Fund is to be submitted to Parliament for approval this year and a secretariat has also been set up to house the staff of the Fund.
He said that when he took over as the ministry's political lead, some adjustments and modifications were made to the ministry's already prepared plans.
In particular, he mentioned that the Ministry's programs are divided into three components: education, water and sanitation, recreation, health, peace and security.
In education, we have recruited 3,000 Arabic teachers to teach Arabic in our elementary schools in order to develop the language in our schools and to make Arabic a subject that can be examined in our schools. schools.
In collaboration with an NGO called World Reader, the ministry donated a mobile library and books to a school in Sabon-Zongo, a suburb of Accra, to promote and deepen the culture of reading and reading. learning in Zongos and city centers.
Some schools across the country have also been renovated to make them livable and suitable for teaching and learning.
Green spaces and modern green spaces are under construction throughout the country, with a focus not only on football, but also on recreation.
The minister announced the construction of 80% of the Madina astro-turf completed, Walewale and Kyebi turf in the northern and eastern regions, as well as Asewase in the region. Ashanti and Fadama Park, in Greater Accra, which will be named after Sheikh Osman Nuhu Sharubutu, National Chief of Imam, once completed.
Dr. Mustapha Abdul Hamid added that in addition to the other green parks that are in various stages of completion scattered across Oda, Salaga, Yeji, Bolgatanga, among others, the emphasis put by his ministry on the creation of such parks does not only concern football, but also leisure.
"We can use these parks for our conferences, festivals and other social gatherings," he said.
Among the prospects for 2019, the minister spoke about the Zongo Coders program, which aims to help young people get out of sakawa interests and other fraudulent acts to turn them into a more productive activity. The program to be piloted in Accra and Kumasi will create jobs and generate real income for the population.
He also referred to Greater Accra's integrated and resilient program, in collaboration with the World Bank, in which 25 million Ghc will be allocated to repair storm sewers in parts of the Greater Accra region.
We will also help business women, especially Zongo food sellers, to change the brand and expand their businesses to generate more income and improve their livelihoods.
To this end, he highlighted the creation of a pictorial album of Zongo food products, which should be disseminated in Ghana's overseas missions for tourists traveling to Ghana to find out the types of food offered in Ghana.
"We have already set up an advertisement in the daily newspapers calling on women interested in applying, the project will be pilot and we will only select 300 women from the Greater Accra region." The project will be extended to other parts of the country, "he said.
Dr. Mustapha Abdul Hamid said that the administration of nuclear power plants, led by Nana Akufo-Addo, was committed to transforming and developing the Zongos and Inner-cities against the negative and negative perception that Zongo was a hub for political thugs.
"I am very determined to put an end to this negative perception of Zongos". "The Zongos are full of talent that needed to be trained, fed and developed for Ghana's benefit."
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