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Need for communities to initiate
development projects – Mensah
Accra, March 01, GNA – Mr Joseph Henry Mensah, Chairman of
the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) on
Wednesday reiterated the need for communities to initiate
their own developmental agenda.
He said it was high time communities break the dependency
syndrome and take initiatives to fulfil their dreams by
avoiding the total reliance on government for the provision
of social amenities and developmental projects.
“It is high time communities start thinking of what they can
do for themselves instead of waiting on government to come
and provide,” he told the audience at the launching of Volta
Messenger, a quarterly magazine of Volta Foundation, a
pressure group in Accra.
The magazine aims to provide a platform by drawing attention
to the rich tourism, agriculture, industries and other
opportunities endowed in the region.
It would in addition, provide an avenue to attract attention
of investors, industrialists, tourists both local and
foreign to invest in the region to spur economic activities.
Mr Mensah said the time had come to build a new Ghana of
quality through a rethink of the old way of doing things.
He said in developing resources to attract people to invest,
due attention should be paid to quality, saying the whole
world now insists on quality.
Mr Mensah was optimistic that the magazine would become an
instrument through which the future generation could
contribute their quota to the development of the country.
Mr Raymond Okudzeto, President of Volta Foundation, said the
Foundation was mapping out strategies to speed up the
development of the region.
In this direction, a 32 billion-cedi fund would soon be
launched to support small and medium scale enterprises in
the region to create jobs and improve on the living
standards of the people.
Mr Okudzeto stressed the determination of members of the
Foundation to contribute their quota to the region’s
development.
He appealed for all and sundry, to get on board to move the
region forward.
GNA
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