Northern Region Highway Construction To Begin

Construction work on the Bole-Sawla-Fufulsu highway, will begin in June this year to speed up socio-economic activities, President John Evans Atta Mills pledged and said all preparations have been finalised. He said he will break ground himself to begin the construction of the road, which is being funded by the Africa Development Bank. The President said this yesterday when he paid a courtesy call on the Yabongwura Tumtumba Boresa Sule Jakpa I to congratulate the King on his enskinnment as well as to inspect and to commission some development projects. President Mills commissioned a hostel facility at the cost of GH¢124,000 for the Health Assistants Training school at Damaga and told the students to study hard since the future on the nation belongs to them, adding “You must justify the investment bestowed on you”. He said the future of the country can only be better-off through human resource development that can be achieved through the acquisition of knowledge and that his government will invest more into education. The Yabongwura Tumtumba Boresa Sule Jakpa I urged interested investors to come to the area to invest. Yabongwura Jakpa I commended the management of the Mole Game Reserve for their enthusiasm in protecting livestock, but urged them to do that in respect to human lives, adding that the construction of the Bole-Sawla-Damaga highways remains dear to his heart. The District Chief Executive (DCE)for West Gonja, Mr. Adams Mutawakilu said the district has so far benefited from 29 educational facilities most of which are schools-under-trees projects and that by 2012, there will be no school-under-tree in the area. He said the district has benefited from nine health infrastructural projects in the last two years and more are to be done. On water, the DCE said the district has benefited from 75 boreholes under the Small Water and Sanitation facility, adding that 166-kilometer roads have been constructed and another 35-kilometer is being funded by the Northern Rural Development Programmme.

Source: GNA