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| Bonaba, Naba Salifu Alemyaarum |
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Paramount Chief of the Bongo Traditional Area, Naba Salifu Alemyaarum has tasked
the Bongo District Assembly to expedite action by developing land boundaries to
pave way for effective development and to help curtail land litigation and
conflict in the area. Naba Alemyaarum threw the challenge when he invited the
newly elected District Chief Executive, Alexis Ayamdor to his palace to
introduce him to his 42 divisional and sub-divisional chiefs. He used the
opportunity to announce to the DCE elect, who was accompanied by the Acting
District Coordinator, the existence of a Customary Land Secretariat, which he
pointed out, was made possible via the effort of the traditional council.
Naba Alemyaarum, however requested the assembly to furnish the facility with
logistics and other training support for staff to enable it function
effectively. He added that his outfit
was collaborating with the office of the Regional Lands Commission to ensure
that it decentralized their operations in the district and impressed upon the
DCE-elect and the assembly to ensure that the process was sped up. He disclosed
to the DCE that the traditional council under his able leadership had also
acquired a land at Gorugu for the building of an ultra- modern hospital for the
district and entreated Mr Ayamdor to facilitate the process to acquire a proper
land documents for the project to commence. One major problem he indicated has
to do with the increasing spate of teenage pregnancies often recorded in the
area. To that effect, a joint effort by the traditional council and the Ghana
Health Service had been initiated to sensitize the various communities on the
issue and again called on Mr Ayamdor to support the process. Naba Alemyaarum,
urged the assembly to revisit the system, where people of 18 years and above in
traditional homes were made to pay taxes, and additionally empower traditional
rulers to collect cattle rates and other property rates for the assembly and
the district in general. The DCE in response to the requests made thanked the
chiefs for the honour done him and appealed to them to guide him with wisdom
and cooperation to run the affairs of the district. He said at the appropriate
time, he would liaise with the assembly members to find practical and pragmatic
solutions to concerns put before him. Mr Ayamdor, assured the district of
massive development during his four year term. Plans, he added, are afoot to
visit the communities and interact with the authorities to know their problems
and see how the assembly could intervene to address those concerns.
GBC
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