09 The Upper East Regional Director for Center for National Culture, Naa Luciano Tungbani has made a passionate appeal to the government and other stakeholders to help complete the centre’s theatre that has been abandoned for the past eleven years. He attributed the stagnation of the project to lack of funds adding that the centre’s craft shop which serves as the main training centre for unemployed youth in the region and need to be resuscitated. This he said will help encourage more unemployed youth to be trained. Naa Tungbani made this appeal when the Regional Minister, Mark Woyongo paid a courtesy call to the centre to round up his 5-day familiarization tour of Departments and agencies within the municipality. The Minister’s visit was to acquaint himself to head and staff of the various department and agencies and to also know their successes and challenges confronting them for rectification. At the Information Services Departments, the Regional Information Officer, Ayamga Nelson Mba called on Municipal and District Chief Executives in the region to involve the District Information Officers, (DIOs) in their respective areas in their programmes to enhance their capacity in the dissemination of government policies to the general public. Mr. Mba also appealed to the Regional Minister to help facilitate the opening of an information office in the newly created Kassena-Nankana West District to enable them reach out to more communities in their public education campaign activities. The Regional Minister urged the general public to discard the negative perception that staffs of ISD are sympathizers of NPP but rather see them as the mouthpiece of the ruling government in order to maintain their credibility. Mr. Woyongo advised staffs of ISD to be neutral and proactive in the discharge of their duties. He entreated the general public to patronize the ISD website for more information on current policies and programmes of the government. Some of the offices the Regional Minister visited were the New Times Corporation, Ghana Tourist Board, the Ghana Library Board, and the Ghana Museum and Monument Board. His last point of call was at the Regional office of the NHIS.
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