The youth in Bawku have assured the residents that there would be peace during the celebration of Christmas and traditional festivals this season.
The Youth said maintaining peace in the area and seeing each other as one would be the surest way to encourage investors and other development partners to come in and contribute their quota to the development of the area.
This was contained in a statement read by Alhaji Moro Kundima, Chairman of the Moshie Youth Association, during the 6th annual Moshie “Buud Yele” festival celebrated in Bawku with the theme, "Promoting Peace and Development in Bawku, the role of the youth".
Alhaji Kundima noted that the youth was the driving force for national development and that there was the need for them to equip themselves with employable skills that would help develop their future.
He urged the youth to use festive occasions to fraternize and make friends with people in the communities in order to build stronger relationships.
He said young people in Bawku were committed to sustaining the peace process and called on other youth Associations within and outside Bawku to contribute towards achieving a sustainable peaceful environment for development.
The Chairman commended government for its efforts in bringing development to the area and said more needed to be done in the areas of education, health and the road network which had become a worry to the people.
Mr Issaku Bukari , Municipal Chief Executive for Bawku and Chairman of the Municipal Security Committee commended the people for giving peace a chance and said government had rolled out many developmental programmes to solve the unemployment problem in the country.
He noted that more dams and dug outs had been provided in the Bawku area for irrigation purposes that would open the chance for the youth to go into farming and stop them from travelling to southern Ghana to look for non-existent jobs during the dry season.
The festival was marked with a display of horse-riding skill, dancing and cultural performance from Moshie tribal groups from neighbouring Burkina Faso and Togo.
