Kugnani (N/R) Nov
19, GNA – Eleven communities in the Saboba District of the Northern Region have
been connected to the national grid to help improve their living conditions.
The communities
include; Kugnani, Bilobibiib, Buegmal, Chachabuni, Najakpol, Kinabuik,and Nabruku.
The rest are;
Liwalbu, Kunjuli, Bungen and Tingbaln.
The Saboba District
Assembly has also signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Lifetime Wells
Ghana, to drill 30 boreholes for needy communities in the area.
The project, when
completed, would enhance access to potable water to rural communities and also
reduce the outbreak of water related diseases in the district.
A six-unit girls’
model classroom block with ancillary facilities was also constructed at Saboba
to ensure improved access to education.
Mr George Kitingyaab
Bingrini, District Chief Executive of Saboba announced this when he conducted
journalists round the communities where the projects were located in the
district.
Mr Bingrini
announced that 60 students from the district were given scholarships to pursue
various programmes at tertiary institutions in the country.
He said based on
their own requests, the Assembly distributed nine deep freezers, and seven
sewing machines to persons living with disabilities, (PWDs), while 40 students
received cash to settle their fees, two with hospital bills, 50 were supported
to venture into petty trading and 17 who are into farming received cash.
GNA
