Dubila Community Calls for infrastructural Support

08-04-2010 Dubila Community Calls for infrastructural Support
The chiefs and people of Dubila, a farming community in the outskirt of the Bolgatanga municipality, are calling on the government, NGOs and other benevolent organisations to come to their aid in extending basic infrastructural facilities for the area. The community though with a population of about thousand seven hundred and sixty eight, mostly Gurunes, cannot boast of basic amenities such as portable drinking water, electricity, schools, and health facilities. The unemployment situations coupled with the road network in the area are nothing to write home about. This unfortunate situation has compelled most of the inhabitants to migrate to other places for greener pastures, thereby affecting the overall development of the area in terms of human resource. Speaking to Radio Ghana in an interview, the Executive Secretary of Dubila Wine-Panga Co-operative Society, a community based organisation, Wisdom Awisika Atuah, said the area has been cut off in terms of development for the past years rendering the community underdeveloped. He expressed disappointment at the current participation rate of school enrolment in the area. School children, he said, have to walk a distance of about 5-6 kilometers to other neighbouring communities such as Beo-Waglicga in the bongo district and Zuarungu-Dachio in the Bolgatanga municipality to attend school. Mr Atua described the situation as very worrying, since some of the children are sometimes exposed to wild animals and reptiles on their way to school. Mr Atua on behalf of the people in the area appealed to the Bolgatanga municipal assembly as a matter of priority to help salvage the situation by providing schools and other infrastructural needs for the people of Dubila to enhance their standard of living. Mr Atua also called for financial and logistical assistance from the assembly to help empower members of the co-operative economically.
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