More Communities in Upper East to be connected to the National Grid

08-07-2010
Narration: Fifty rural communities in each of all the nine districts in the Upper East Region would benefit from Governments rural electrification Project to enhance their standard of living. In view of this, a 300 million dollar funding has been sourced from donor partners to cater for the project which is scheduled to commence by the end of the year. This was made known by the Upper East Regional Minister, Mark Woyongo at a sod cutting ceremony of the electrification project at Atuba, a community in the Binduri Constituency of the Upper East Region. Isaac Asare witnessed the ceremony and has the rest of the story for Radio Ghana.


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The event which was marked amidst drumming and dancing brought together chiefs and people of Atuba and its catchment areas. Mr. Woyongo who was in the company of the Bawku Municipal Chief Executive, Musa Abdullai and other dignitaries expressed government’s commitment in ensuring that all villages across the country are connected to the national grid. He outlined other government interventional policies geared at narrowing the development gap between the north and the south. He mentioned the youth in Agriculture block farming programme as one of the policies that needs to be prioritized by the youth in the region to reduce poverty among themselves. Mr Woyongo also took the opportunity to educate the people on the Savanna Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) which, he noted, is aimed at poverty reduction among people in the three regions of the north. he said under SADA, new dams would be constructed whilst the existing ones would be desilted to improve the irrigation systems to ensure all year faming. This he said would increase the production of rice and other crops both in the wet and dry season The Bawku Municipal Chief Executive, Musa Abdullai in an address said government in its quest to enhance effective teaching and learning in the country has instituted various measures aimed at addressing the country’s educational challenges some of which include the capitation grant, construction of schools, provision of school infrastructure among others. He indicated that very soon the pupils of Atuba would benefit from 600 school uniforms. Additional two schools, he stated, would be constructed in the area with pupils benefitting from governments school feeding programme. The chief of Binduri, Naba Azimbe Anobilla in a speech read for him appealed to the government to help provide the community with a senior high school, a police station and also elevate the Binduri area to a district status. He commended government’s efforts in ensuring that development reaches all remote areas across the country.
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