By Jerry Azanduna, GNA
Manyaro (U/E), Jan. 8, GNA – Pe Ditungdine
Adiali Ayagitam III, Paramount Chief of the Chiana Traditional Area, has called
on stakeholders to promote the advancement of young people in the country as
they are the force for national development.
He said the nation would succeed if it paid
great attention to its young people and involved them in sustainable
development activities.
Pe Adiali-Ayagitam made the call on behalf
of the chiefs and people of the Kassena-Nankana Traditional Area at the
celebration of the Nemoro-Fao festival at Manyaro in the Kasseana-Nankana
Municipality of the Upper East Region.
The festival is celebrated annually to thank
the ancestral spirits for peace, unity and a good harvest at the end of the
farming season.
“The implementation of good sustainable
development policies would make good economic growth and enhance the living
standards of the people in the communities and the entire region”, he said.
Pe Adiali-Ayagitam said government has
charted a path for development aimed at making the livelihood conditions of the
people better and was fast transforming the local economy through the
introduction of its flagship programmes among others.
“These social intervention policies
including the ‘Planting for Food and Jobs’, ‘Rearing for Food and Jobs’ and the
Nation Builders Corps among others are laudable policies worth patronizing to
improve the economic conditions and maintain a robust job creation
environment”, he said.
Pe Adiali-Ayagitam said it was not good that
large numbers of the youth were migrating from the north to the southern part
of the country in search of non-existent jobs and called on government to focus
on sustaining the social intervention policies.
Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, the Vice
President, in a speech, read on his behalf by Madam Tangoba Abayage, the Upper
East Regional Minister, said young people remain a key segment of the
population and government would continue to ensure sustainable development
oriented programmes were developed to promote their growth.
He said more policies by government were
being programmed to enforce the involvement of the youth in the decision-making
process so as to give them the opportunity to contribute meaningfully towards
their own development.
He said comprehensive Vocational and
Technical Education Training (TVET) programmes have been established to build and
equip state-of – the-art technical training centres that would offer training
in various trades.
The Nemoro Festival brought together chiefs,
sons and daughters of the area to tell the story of the rich culture in the
area through traditional drumming and dancing.
GNA
