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Bolga-Bawku-Pulmakom Road For July 2020

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has
announced that the controversial 116 kilometre Bolgatanga-Bawku-Pulmakom road
will be completed by the end of July 2020.

According to the Vice President, the Brazilian
contractor working on the road, Queiroz Galvão, has promised to work harder and
faster, adding, “…On my way here, I stopped to have a word with the
contractor and inspect work done so far. The contractor has assured that by
July 2020 the road will be completed.”

He was speaking at the climax of the 32nd
Samanpiid Festival in Bawku recently where he also donated an amount of GH¢10,000
to the Bawku Naba Educational Fund and another GH¢20,000 and assorted drinks to
support the festival.

Samanpiid is a harvest and thanksgiving
festival celebrated by the Kusasis in the Bawku Traditional Area. It is a
period to take stock and resolve to change what doesn’t promote development,
unity and the progress of the area. 

This year, a total of 33 sub-chiefs and 25 divisional
chiefs within the Bawku Traditional Area attended the durbar.

A 60-member delegation from the Asantehene also
attended the festival for the first time at the invitation of Zug-Raan Bawku,
Naba Asigri Abugrago Azoka II.

Touching on education, Dr. Bawumia disclosed that
it has not been easy implementing the Free Senior High School programme, but
was quick to give an assurance that government was committed to ensuring that many
more Ghanaian children gain secondary education to lessen the burden on
parents.

He was hopeful that efforts and investments by government in the
education sector ‒ especially
in the area of secondary education across the country ‒ would lead to ending the track system.

Dr. Bawumia said government was expanding and
rehabilitating old dams and constructing small dams across the north to ensure
an all-year round farming to enable households to make money to attend to their
basic needs.

The Vice President said with the investments
being made into agriculture, there is bound to be high yields, hence the need
for warehouses to keep the excess food for future use and sales.

Naba Asigri Abugrago Azoka II also commended the
government for the investment made in agriculture in the area and reminded
government to fulfill its promise to construct a warehouse for farmers to store
their excess produce. 

He also called on government to release more
funding to the contractor working on the Tamne Dam to enable the company to work
faster and complete it before the next rainy season.

Unfortunately, the pilot phase of the ‘rearing
for food’ programme did not cover the Bawku Municipality, for which reason the paramount
chief of Bawku called on government to extend the programme to the Bawku
Traditional Area to benefit the many small scale animal farmers in the area.

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga, who represented the six MPs from the Bawku Traditional Area, called on government to finish all ongoing projects in the area of education, health, agriculture and the rural electrification programme, which he said have come to a halt.

FROM Ebo Bruce-Quansah, Bawku

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