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Vice President inspects Wa/Bamboi road
project
Bamboi (N/R), July 6, GNA - Vice President Alhaji Aliu
Mahama has told the contractor working on the 53-kilometre
Tinga-Bamboi portion of the Wa/Bamboi road to do a good job
and to complete it early to enhance the economic activities
of the people.
He said the government attached importance to quality roads
because a good road network was one of the surest ways of
helping to reduce poverty.
Vice President Mahama said this when he made a stopover at
Bamboi to inspect 21.5 million Ghana Cedi road project while
on his way to the Upper West Region on Thursday.
He said when completed the road would impact positively on
lives of the people as it would facilitate the movement of
goods and people from the region to the southern parts of
the country.
"The people of the Northern and Upper West regions have
suffered in the past because of the bad nature of the road.
This project means a lot to them and we must not relent but
to redouble our efforts to complete the project on schedule
and of good quality".
Nana Opoku, Project Coordinator, said work on the project
was moving 17 percent faster than its 15 percent scheduled
plan.
At a meeting with the chiefs and people of Bamboi, Vice
President Mahama told them that Bamboi would be connected to
the national electricity grid to promote cottage industry.
"Darkness is sickness and sooner than later your town would
be booming with economic activities and the school children
would also have access to light to enhance their studies",
he said.
He assured the people of Bamboi that their request for a
senior secondary school and the upgrading of the health
centre to a hospital would be channelled to the appropriate
ministries for consideration.
On the Bui Dam, Vice President Mahama said work would start
soon and called for the cooperation and support of the
people for its smooth take-off.
Vice President Mahama appealed to the people of Bamboi,
Bole, Sawla and Tuna, where he paid courtesy calls on the
chiefs, to embrace the National Health Insurance Scheme.
The Regent of Bamboi, Nana Adama Salia, commended the
government for providing schools, potable water and roads to
the people.
At Bole the Bolewura Amankwa Gbeadese II called on the
government to consider renaming the Bole and
Sawla-Tuna-Kalba districts as Bole South and Bole North
districts because the two districts belong to one
traditional area.
GNA
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