THE Upper West Regional Minister designate, Mr Mahmud Khalid, has promised to make youth issues and the development of women in the region his major priority.
To that end, he said he would mobilise the youth in particular to go into farming, specifically rice cultivation, explaining that this would generate employment, ensure food security and reduce poverty.
Mr Khalid, who was speaking in an interview in Wa, also said he would institute measurers geared towards developing the skills of the youth for them to be able to undertake long-term profit-generating ventures.
Commenting on the state of the region as he aspired to be the regional minister, Mr Khalid said, "The region is completely divided. I would, therefore, work to unite the chiefs and people with regard to issues bordering on chieftaincy disputes, politics, religion and ethnicity.”
He said it was time people saw one another as people from the region so that "we can work together to develop the region".
On education, the President's nominee said increasing infrastructure in the educational sector would see more children of school age having access to education.
He, therefore, indicated his readiness to see to the construction of more classrooms and also promised to seek support from the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) and other private organisations to assist in the construction of hostel facilities for students of the Wa campus of the University for Development Studies (UDS) and the Wa Polytechnic.
On what he expected from incoming municipal and district chief executives, Mr Khalid said they must be development oriented.
He advised them to see themselves as servants of the people, saying, "People have become more sophisticated and so if you try to lord it over them you will not get what you want."
The regional minister designate also stressed the need for a healthy relationship with the media as he tried to carry out his vision for the region.
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