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Volta Region needs a strategic
development plan not another region-Okudzeto
Hohoe, July 03, GNA - Mr Raymond Okudzeto, Founder and
President of Volta Foundation has observed that Volta Region
required a strategic development road map to promote
public-private sector partnership for investment and equity
in development and not another region.
He said the desire for the creation of another region was
misguided and lacked foresight.
Speaking to Ghana News Agency at Hohoe, Mr Okudzeto said
once equity was achieved in the development of the region
the call for another region would cease.
He noted that lack of development in the northern part of
the region was due to lack of a master plan to promote
sector-by-sector and district by district benchmark to meet
development targets across the region.
Mr Okudzeto therefore advocated for the establishment of a
council of eminent citizens from the region to dialogue
regularly and fashion out development blueprint for the
region, devoid of factional politics.
He said a pressure group, which was established recently
with oversight responsibility to lobby and tackle some of
the region's developmental opportunities, was yielding
dividends, such as the re-engineering of the Aveyime Rice
Project by a strategic investor.
Mr Okudzeto called on indigenes in the region to rationalize
and redirect their investment and human capital into the
developmental needs of the area as "the only option left
towards changing the destiny of the region".
GNA
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