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Buem Coalition urges government to create region for northern
Volta
Jasikan, May 14, GNA – Mr Isaka Buraima,
President of the Coalition for Peace and Development in Buem (COPADIB),
has reiterated the call on government to create a region for the
northern part of the Volta Region to facilitate the development
of the area.
He expressed worry that previous governments, including the
National Democratic Congress (NDC), and New Patriotic Party (NPP),
have failed to consider petitions from the people of the area on
the matter.
Mr Buraima was speaking at a mini congress organised by COPADIB
at Jasikan in the Jasikan District, under the theme “
Agriculture for Poverty Reduction in Buem “.
The President of the Coalition urged government to seek the
views of the people on the issue, which according to him were
solely motivated by development concerns.
He said that even though the request was a constitutional issue,
“It might generate public debate so the people of northern Volta
should be given the opportunity to justify their demand.
“Social and political commentators might only succeed in
speaking on behalf of the people but not necessarily for the
people,” he added.
Mr Buraima said Ho, the regional capital, was too remote for the
people of northern Volta, hampering administrative work and
development.
He said the northern part of Volta was the food basket of the
region and contributed to national development but lacked good
roads and other infrastructure to ensure meaningful development.
Mr Buraima stressed that “the creation of a new region would
ensure the rapid realization of government’s decentralization
policy and equitable distribution of the country’s resources in
line with the Directive Principle of State Policy as enshrined
in the 1992 Constitution of Ghana.”
Naval Captain Beick Baffour of the Ghana Navy, a member of the
Coalition, said the area was suitable for the cultivation of
varieties of crops and raising of livestock so he urged
government to support the farmers to increase their output.
Mr Alfred Adzomani, District Director of Agriculture, advised
farmers in the area to combine the cultivation of stables like
cassava, maize and yam with the production of cocoa and other
cash crops to enable them to earn more income to improve their
standards of living.
GNA
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