MPs uses sports to foster peace and unity

Salaga, (N/R), June 1, GNA - The Member of Parliament (MP) for Salaga, Alhaji Ibrahim Dey, at the weekend organised a football match between the Police Service and a Salaga community team to foster cordial relationship between the security services and their civilian counterparts.

Alhaji Dey expressed regret that the people of the area have been polarized into various factions as a result of the last general elections and pledged to use sporting activities to bring all the factions together to ensure peaceful co-existence.

The MP impressed on the people to see members of the Police Service as friends and not enemies and urged them to cooperate with them to maintain law and order in their communities. Alhaji Dey said he has plans of forming a women's football team in the area and as well as promoting other sporting activities such as volleyball and table tennis.

The community team beat their Police team counterparts by a lone goal which was scored in the first half by Rauf Alhassan. Alhaji Dey presented a set of jerseys to the winning team as their price.

In a related development the MP also supported the organization of football matches between eight wards in the Constituency after which he presented a set of jerseys a nd footballs valued at GH¢ 7000.00 to the participating teams. Prior to the match, the MP inspected the roads in his constituency which he described as being in very deplorable state and expressed the fear that immediate remedial measures are not taken some areas may be completely cut off from the district capital when the rains set in.