Residents of Mamprugu-Moaduri District in the Northern Region have made a passionate appeal to the government to speed up work to connect the area to the national grid.
They equally stressed the need for the road network in the area to be improved to facilitate the siting of local industries and more importantly make the 10-million Euros Sisili-Kulpawn Integrated Water Management Project succeed.
The District Chief Executive (DCE) for the area, Mr Maxwell Mahama, who made the appeal on behalf of the people at Yagaba, during a forum to sensitise and create awareness of the water management project, stated that the district was the only one among the five newly created districts in the Northern Region that was yet to be connected to the national grid.
He noted that when that was done it would make the water management project to succeed and encourage investors to site local industries in the area.
This would ultimately create jobs for the youth and prevent them from seeking greener pastures in the big cities,he added.
On roads, Mr Mahama observed that the area was blessed with three rivers, the Black and White , and the Volta as such there was the need to tap into those resources and improve on the road network.
He further explained that the area was difficult to reach, especially during the rainy season due to the bad roads, as such visitors to the area would have to pass through the Bolgatanga municipality and the adjoining districts before getting to the area.
He entreated the government and development partners to help provide a Nursing Training College at Kubore,a District Hospital at Yagaba and a second senior high school in the area.
The DCE commended the government for supporting the Yagaba Senior High School with a generator and two mechanised boreholes but appealed for a school bus to be provided the school.
The Member of Parliament for the area,Alhaji Mustapha Yussif expressed regret that about 70 per cent of residents in the area lived on less than two Ghana cedis a day and could not afford two square meals a day.
He mentioned lack of access to credit facilities and poor infrastructure in the area as some of the challenges facing the people.
Alhaji Yussif further observed that although he was doing his best to help ameliorate the suffering of the people, there was the need for concerted efforts to deal with the situation in the area.
By Vincent Amenuveve/Daily Graphic/Ghana
