Sissalas give unflinching support to government

Gwollu (U/R), Aug 7, GNA - The chiefs and people of the Sissala East and Sissala West districts have expressed their support for President John Agyekum Kufuor and the government for providing them with their fair share of the national cake in terms of development projects. They also expressed their gratitude to President Kufuor for appointing their son, Mr. George Hikah Benson and their wife, Mrs Winifred Dy-Yakah as Regional Minister and Deputy Regional Minister respectively.

The appointment of Mr Benson brings to three the number of Sissalas who served as Upper West Regional Ministers since the creation of the region in 1983.

The other there were Mr. Salifu Bawa Dy-yakah and Alhaji Amidu Sulemena.

Mr. Sulley Kupa, a spokesman for the Gwollu Kuoru, Kuri-Buktie Limann IV, Paramount Chief of the Gwollu Traditional Area, expressed the support of the people at a durbar of chiefs to welcome the Upper West Regional Minister, Mr. Benson to the district.

Similar expressions were also made at Wellembelle, Tumu, Pulima, Jeffisi, Gwollu and Zini where the Regional Minister interacted with the people.

The chiefs appealed to the government to provide them with office accommodation and registrars to handle the today-to-day administration of the traditional councils.

The people of the two districts said they had benefited from the School Feeding Programme, the Capitation Grant, health facilities, electricity, dams and some roads that had become deplorable due to the recent heavy rains.

They urged the government to provide them with feeder roads to enable them to transport th eir farm produce to marketing centres to encourage more farming.

Some community leaders appealed to the government to extend electricity to their communities.

Some schools also need expansion to cater for the large enrolment of children due to the school feeding programme and the capitation grant while some communities called for the opening of police stations. In response to the demands of the people, Mr. Benson urged them to remain united and maintain law and order in the communities to enable the government provide them with their needs.

He said the government has got a lot of development projects earmarked for the region, especially during the last leap of President Kufuor's administration.

Mr. Benson urged the people to forget the past and look positively into the future by uniting to develop the region. 22 Aug 07