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Minority Leader to assist chiefs in his constituency
Kaleo (UW), Sept 8, Ghanadot/GNA – Mr Alban Bagbin, Minority
Leader in Parliament at the weekend said he would use his
personal resources to support chiefs in his constituency to
live dignified lives because tradition was a critical
element of development in Africa.
To this end, he has rehabilitated an old unused primary
school block to serve as offices for the Kaleo Traditional
Council to ensure that the chiefs were comfortable enough to
receive dignitaries in their palaces.
Mr Bagbin said this when he commissioned a 20,000 Ghana
cedis street lighting project for the Kaleo Community at
Kaleo in the Nadowli District of the Upper West Region.
The Minority Leader, who is the Member of Parliament (MP)
for Nadowli West Constituency, financed the project with his
share of Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Funds.
The project was initiated by the Kaleo Optimists Club, a
development oriented group of Kaleo citizens resident in Wa,
the regional capital.
Mr Bagbin said the provision of electricity for the town was
a step that could motivate industrialists and business
people to invest in the community.
He advised the people of the community to prepare for
urbanisation by building the capacity of their youth to face
the challenges associated with that development.
The Minority Leader used the occasion to respond to his
critics, saying the main duty of an MP was to talk and
debate issues.
“People accuse me of talking too much in parliament but that
is what you voted for me to go and do. We debate in
parliament to bring development,” he said.
Naa Sanbunaa Anwobiri, a representative of the Chief of
Kaleo, urged the youth of the community not to take undue
advantage of the lights to make noise and disturb the sleep
of people at night.
He asked them to see environmental cleanliness as a key
factor of development.
Mr Eddie Kaleonaa, a spokesman for the Kaleo Optimists Club
called on the youth to keep politics away from development
initiatives because everyone would gain when the town was
developed.
GNA
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