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Bolgatanga, Ghana – The Upper East Regional Minister, Paulina Patience Abayage, has described President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as a development-oriented leader who is desirous of transforming Ghana through ambitious policies and programmes.
These policies and programmes, which include the One Village One Dam, One District One Factory, One District One Warehouse, Planting for Food and Jobs and the planting for Export and Rural Development among others, she said, are capable of transforming Ghana if only every citizen plays their role in their implementation.
She said these as she addressed the Upper East Regional House of Chiefs during their end of year ordinary meeting recently.
Madam Paulina Patience also noted that there is a serious gap in the education of residents in the Southern part of the country and those in the Northern part.
She observed that, the yawning educational gap between the North and the South of the country is because of the fact that, the first school in the South started around 1529 in the Elmina Castle in Cape Coast whereas the first school in the Northern Territories now divided into Northern, Upper West and Upper East Regions started in 1906.
She therefore urged parents and guardians to support the education of their children and wards especially the girl child with the advent of the free SHS programme currently being implemented by the government.
Touching on some social vices, the minister solicited the support of all residents in the region to help fight against open defecation, indiscriminate bush burning and teenage pregnancy among others.
She said the government is also committed to promoting Ghana’s cultural diversity as a rich asset which the nation can exploit for growth, employment and wealth creation.
She appealed to the eminent chiefs who are always in touch with all manner of persons from different walks of life to tread cautiously and be neutral in the midst of these diversities as true politically independent traditional rulers.
Madam Paulina Patience also pleaded with the chiefs to help in the maintenance of peace in the region, since a peaceful region will help the region to grow.
By Savannahnewsonline.com/Philip Liebs
