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Minister-designate
promises to unite the Volta region
Ho, Feb. 03, Ghanadot/GNA - Mr Joseph Amenowode,
Volta Regional Minister-Designate, on Monday, said his first
priority would be to unite the people of the region while co-ordinating
efforts at human development, job creation and improving the
region’s economy.
“I would first want to break the compartmentalization of the
region into Southern, Central and Northern Volta to forge a
united front towards the accelerated development of the region.”
Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, Mr
Amenowode assured that he intended to work with everybody to
reduce poverty in the region, provide jobs for young people and
lessen rural urban migration.
He said his administration would identify small scale industries
and facilitate the availability of start-up capital for them to
get established and be viable.
Mr Amenowode said artisans would be encouraged to form small
groups so as to undertake “small contracts.”
He said he intended to work with Members of Parliament in the
region and all Municipal and District Chief Executives in
meeting promises made to the region including the establishment
of a state university before the end of the first term of the
Government.
Mr Amenowode said by 2012, he hoped to have changed the face of
the region with improved infrastructure, many formal and
informal educational and business opportunities with “no student
learning under trees.”
He acknowledged that the task ahead was not going to be easy but
was confident that with the support and patience of the people
much would be achieved in the next four years.
GNA
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