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By Sambiru Duut Elijah, RNG
Wa, April 14, GNA –
Mr. Hafiz Bin-Salih, Regional Minister for the Upper West, promised serious consequences.
infrastructural investments that will see mbadive construction and
rehabilitation of roads and completion of projects initiated by the previous one
the administration to improve livelihoods.
He said his
management would ensure the completion and operationalization of the Upper West
Regional Hospital, which has been stuck over the years and the beginning of
commercial flights to the new regional airport renovated in the past
government.
Dr. Bin-Salih did
the promise in a speech delivered on his behalf by the Upper West Regional
Mr Gilbert Nuuri-Teg, Director General of the Coordination Council (CCR), during the
The 2018 Annual Review Session is held at Wa.
He said 69 solar
Motorized limited motorized drilling under the Ministry of Special Development
Initiatives (IDS) were under construction in various communities around the 11
districts.
"My Best
The priority is to see the completion and the operationalization of some major projects
in the region, "he added.
Dr. Bin-Salih said
the SID Ministry was building a 10-seat institutional closet
toilets with mechanized boreholes throughout the Region to improve sanitation and
water situations.
Under the
Government policy regarding single villages, the Minister said that a total of 110 dams
had been handed over for nationwide construction with each of the regions
receive 10 dams.
He said 1,000
A warehouse project with a metric tons capacity was built in Bulenga, Busie,
Han and Chariakpong while the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA)
construction of three warehouses in Tumu, Funsi and Lambussie to complete
existing storage facilities.
Dr. Bin-Salih said
the Regional Coordination Council had received funding from the World Bank for
civil works for the construction of the Lambussie water supply system,
the rehabilitation and expansion of Hamile and Happa's water supply systems and
the installation of 10 water supply systems in Lawra, Jirapa, Nandom, Sissala West and
Districts of Daffiama-Busie-Issah.
He said the nation
Builders' Corps had hired 2,256 graduates in various modules, while the
The National Youth Authority hired 770 people in 2018.
New modules would be
to be deployed in April to engage about 3000 young people in the production of poultry, shea butter
treatment and smock weaving, he added.
Mr Salifu Issifu
Kanton, Executive Director of the Community Development Alliance (CDA),
appealed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and stakeholders to introduce robust measures to limit the
threat of contraband fertilizer in the region.
He urged MOFA to
ensure equitable distribution of fertilizers and other materials as well as
extend it to all farmers regardless of bad, religion or ethnicity.
Mr. Samuel Larbi,
responsible for the budget of the Wa-East District Assembly, asked the RCC why Wa East
The district had been excluded from the urban road network project.
He said road
construction, as part of the urban road project, was underway in other districts
but nothing happened in the district, which made the inhabitants feel neglected.
But the CCR
The director, Mr. Nuuri-Teg, invited him to be patient then
projects, including the Funsi urban road network, had been concealed and
be redeployed as part of the Sinohydro road projects initiated by the President
early last week.
GNA
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