GUNA will provide Ada with irrigation equipment - Asamuah

Kasseh-Ada (GA/R), Aug. 30, GNA - Dr Michael Ewuah Asamuah, Director-General of the Ghana United Nations Association (GUNA), has assured the people of Ada that the association would provide them with irrigation equipment and technology to enable peasant farmers to do all-year round farming.

Dr Asamuah disclosed this at Kasseh during the official inauguration of the Dangme East branch of GUNA at Kasseh at the weekend. According to Dr Asamuah, the greatest challenge facing farmers of Ada was accessibility to water for all-year round farming. He further stated that for people to enjoy life, there must be relative peace at all quarters.

He said nobody should take the peace Ghanaians were currently enjoying for granted.

"Some countries in Africa today, which are plucked into a thermo-nuclear catastrophe, once upon a time enjoyed peace like Ghana but because some unscrupulous citizens breach the peace process, hence the violent and rampant wars all over, and the considerable mass destruction of lives and properties."

Dr Asamuah pointed out that no nation could talk of peace, when a vast number of its population went hungry, the well-being of individuals must be developed and no one could talk of democracy, whilst the fundamental human rights of people were taken for granted.

He assured the people of Ada that, as there was a closer link between the general well-being of the Ghanaian populace and peace, Ada would be considered first in terms of allocation of developmental projects. The Dangme East District Chief Executive, Mr Israel Narh Baako said GUNA signified the decent realization of the activities of the United Nations Organisation to people at the grassroots to bring world body closer to all people.

In a speech read on his behalf by Mr Mohammed Yakubu, Deputy District Coordinating Director, Mr Baako urged people in the area to co-operate with the Dangme East branch of GUNA to enable it to live up to expectation.

Mr Alex Tettey-Enyo, Member of Parliament for Ada, said peace and development were principles the people of Ada believed in since time immemorial, and urged them to continue to promote peace and tranquillity in the district.