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Peace is the only assurance against
hunger - Veep
Wa, June 1, Ghanadot/GNA- Vice
President Alhaji Aliu Mahama has told the people of Upper
West Region that the region was still young and needed
maximum peace and cooperation from “all sons and daughters”
to push its development agenda forward.
He said it was disheartening that people from the Upper
West, Upper East and Northern Regions had refused to
acknowledge the presence of poverty in their midst and had
always taken to arms at the least provocation thereby
allowing poverty to plague them.
"The North has now portrayed itself as a place of conflicts.
Its road infrastructure and health facilities are bad yet
the people continue to fight
among themselves and scaring non-governmental organisations
that are
supporting to improve their livelihoods to flee the area",
Alhaji Mahama
said.
Vice President Alhaji Mahama was speaking at a dinner dance
organised by the Upper West Regional Coordinating Council (RCC)
to round off activities marking the 25th anniversary of the
creating of the region in Wa last night.\
He said conflicts would not do them any good and advised
that they
work together to attract investors to help develop the
regions.
"Let us learn to seek justice from the law courts to settle
chieftaincy and
land disputes and avoid taking the law into our own hands",
he advised.
Vice President Alhaji Mahama said because of conflicts, some
district
assemblies were spending all their revenue on peacekeeping
instead of
development projects.
He said the Upper West Region was endowed with qualified
human resource, whose expertise if properly tapped and
harnessed could promote a rapid development of the region.
He said: “Talking about the North, the Upper West Region
stands taller than the other two regions in terms of human
resource capital and attributed its success story to the
Catholic Church, which has provided good schools and
training to the people".
Vice President Aliu Mahama congratulated the chiefs and
people of the region for a successful anniversary and urged
them to see the development of the region as a priority.
Earlier in the day, Vice President Alhaji Mahama visited
Douri to pay
tribute to the late Naa S.D.Dombo, leader and founder of the
NPP tradition in the region, who died ten years ago.
He announced that government would soon tar the Jirapa/Douri
road to make it accessible for people to travel to Douri,
which has become a tourist attraction.
He said government has provided electricity to the town to
encourage the setting up of cottage industries and urged the
youth to take advantage of it to enhance their living
conditions.
Vice President Alhaji Mahama asked the people to vote for
the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the December 7 polls,
saying: "One of the greatest things we can do to remember
the late Naa S.D. Dombo was to take away the Jirapa seat
from the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
Naa Clement S.D. Dombo II, Chief of Douri admitted that the
NDC administration had done some development for the Upper
West Region but the NPP had undertaken more infrastructure
development that was impacting positively on the lives of
the people.
He thanked the government for providing Douri with
electricity and appealed for three more transformers to
extend electricity to the rest of the community.
Vice President Alhaji Mahama also paid a visit to Brifo to
mourn with the Brifo Naa, Harry Ganda, who lost one of his
sons.
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