President begins two-day visit to UWR on Monday

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    President John Atta Mills will on Monday begin a two-day official visit to the Upper West Region, to inspect ongoing development projects and to cut-sod for commencement of other projects.

    A programme from the Upper West Regional Coordinating Council
    indicated that to kick-start the tour, President will call on the
    Chief Imam, Yerinaa (Chief of Moslems) and Tendambas (Landlords) of
    Wa, in the morning before holding a meeting with traditional rulers at
    the Regional House of Chiefs.

    He will later cut sod for commencement of work on the
    construction of an administrative and library Complex for the Wa
    Campus of the University for the Development Studies (UDS).
    President Mills will proceed to Nadowli District where he will
    inaugurate a six-unit classroom block for Queen of Peace Senior High
    School (SHS) at Nadowli.

    He would visit the Jirapa District where he will inaugurate and
    inspect projects at Saint Francis Girls SHS at Jirapa and continue to
    Lawra District to inaugurate the Health Assistants Training School at
    Lawra.

    President Mills will inspect ongoing work on the
    Nadowli-Lawra-Hamile road and return to Wa to meet with NDC executives
    and opinion leaders.

    On Tuesday, he will pay a courtesy call on the Catholic Bishop of
    Wa, inaugurate electricity project at Sagu, perform ground breaking
    for the rehabilitation of the Wa-Hain road at Naro in the Nadowli
    District and sod cutting ceremony for the construction of a Polyclinic
    at Hain in the Jirapa District.

    President Mills will continue to the Sissala West District where
    he will inspect projects at the Gwollu SHS and leave for Tumu in the
    East Sissala District to inaugurate and inspect a dinning hall project
    at the Tumu Secondary/Technical School.

    The President will inspect work on the Tumu town roads and the
    Divisional Police Station at Tumu and go to Funsi in the Wa East
    District to inspect projects at the Funsi SHS.

    He will inaugurate small town water supply and electricity
    projects at Funsi, and launch the Regional Rural Electrification
    Project also at Funsi before returning to Wa to end his official tour
    of the Region.

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