THE Upper West Region is to see improvement in the road sector this year, the Minister of State at the Ministry of Transportation, Mr Godfrey Bayon Tangu, has announced.
Mr Tangu, who was addressing a people’s assembly at Wa, said in all, a total of 265 kilometres of roads in the region would be tarred.
He mentioned some of the projects to be tackled as the 109 kilometre Wa-Han-Tumu, the 70 kilometre Tumu-Chuchuliga, the Nadowli-Lawra and Hamile roads.
The Minister of State at the Ministry of Justice and former Regional Minister for the region, Mr Ambrose Dery and a Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Mr Clement Eledi, attended the forum.
The Upper West Regional Minister, Mr George Hickah Benson, in an address, commended past regimes for their roles in the creation of the region.
He hinted that eight communities in the region had so far been connected to the national electricity grid this year, adding that five more communities in the region would be connected to the grid soon.
On the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP), Mr Benson said 4,769 people had been employed in the region.
He called on the people to eschew divisiveness and work collectively to improve their living standard.
For his part, the Wa Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Mr Abdul Aziz Mohammed Godo, said the people’s assembly concept was meant to deepen the roots of decentralisation and to bring good governance to the doorstep of the people.
He commended the respective royal families of the Wala Traditional Area for their resolve to pursue due process of law to settle their grievances.
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