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Damongo, Ghana – Former President John Dramani Mahama has admonished the Chiefs and people of the Gonjaland Traditional Area in the Savannah Region of Ghana to embrace peace for sustainable development.
Speaking at the 43rd Gonjaland Youth Association annual general meeting held in Damongo over the weekends, former President Mahama called for peace in Gonjaland saying “without peace, there can never be development”.
He reminded his kinsmen that Gonjaland was the envy of all other tribes in Ghana since chieftainship is by a laid down succession but recent chieftaincy problems was eroding this enviable record of the Gonja people.
The former President bemoaned the phenomenon of “double chiefs” in a number of Gonja communities as a result of chieftaincy problems and asked for an immediate resolution of all chieftaincy problems.
He praised the Yagbonwura for constituting a committee some few weeks ago to find lasting solutions to all conflicts in Gonjaland.
Touching on the water problem affecting the Savannah Regional capital of Damongo, former President Mahama appealed to the NPP goverment to follow the initial plan designed by his government to supply Damongo and its environs with potable water from the black Volta.
He went further to promise the people of Gonjaland that if the government fails to solve the water problem, he would solve it in 2021 after he becomes the next President.
Touching on the road network in Gonjaland, former President Mahama further appealed to the government to continue with some of the roads he started especially the Busunu- Daboya- Mankargu road and all the roads that were not completed before he left office in 2017.
He also urged the government to develop not only the Savannah Region but all the newly created regions since they are all lagging behind in terms of development.
Earlier before a durbar of the Gonjaland Youth Association Congress, former President Mahama was at the Palace of the King and Overlord of the Gonjaland Traditional Area, Yagbonwura Boresah Tuntumba (l) to witness the conferment of an Honorary Doctorate Degree and Professorship in acknowledgement of the Yagbonwura’s dedication to progress and development of the Gonja Kingdom and the entire country.
The Honorary Doctorate Degree and Professorship was conferred on the Overlord of Gonja by the Poltava University of Economics and Trade in Ukraine (PUET).
The ceremony was attended by all the Paramount Chiefs of Gonja Traditional Area as well as sons and daughters of Gonjaland and beyond.
By Savannahnewsonline.com/Zion Abdul-Rauf/Nkilgi FM
