Author: Upper West Media

Sung-Bawiara Foundation supported three at-risk girls of the Wechiau Girls Model Junior High School with bicycles to facilitate their movement to school and back.

The initiative is the organisation’s self-initiated Girls Education Support (GES) Project. The project is aimed at empowering girls who are very brilliant and at-risk to falling out of school giving their vulnerability to lacking basic needs to attend school or acquire skills.

The team from Sung-Bawiara Foundation was led by Tahiru Lukman a consultant to the organisation. He noted that, the bicycles are strictly not for sales and is also the exclusive property of the girls. He added “no parent or guardian or teacher have the right to seized the bicycles from the girls to use, especially during week days”

The brief ceremony includes teaching staff and management of the school, the guardians/parents of the girls and the Wa West District education deputy director of education incharge of finance and administration.

The parents pledge to support in maintaining the bicycles for the girls as they expressed gratitude to Sung-Bawiara Foundation and the Headmistress for facility to ensure their daughters benefit from the gesture.

Source: Tahiru Lukman/Director of Ideapath Consult

Residents of Kulkpali in the Dabo Electoral Area in the Wa West District have held a community durbar and appealed to the government and philanthropic individuals to come and support them reduce some challenges affecting their health staff.

According to the Community Health Officer (CHO) at the Health Centre, Mr. Kudus Wullo, the Health Centre serves seven communities with a population of over 1,300 with one motorbike which is a means of transport to serve all the communities.

He lamented that inadequate health staff and lack of telecommunication network are factors affecting health delivery in the community.

Mr. Kudus indicated that inadequate drugs also affect quality service delivery.

The Assembly Member for the Electoral Area, Mr. Banabas Gaazienye, applauded the District Health Director, Madam Cecilia Kakariba for the support to elevate the CHPS Compounds to Health Centre to enhance quality health delivery in the area.

Mr. Gaazienye thus lamented the lack of a maternity ward at the Kulkpali CHPS and incomplete health facility at Gombile as worrying.

The District Health Director, Madam Cecilia Kakariba, decried the inadequate antenatal attendance at the Health Centre.

Source: Info Radio

Out of the over 30 persons who have expressed interest to be executives of the NDC in the Jirapa constituency, only 2 hopefuls have filed their nomination forms today, 28th September 2022.

This is an official declaration that they will contest the upcoming NDC Jirapa constituency executive election schedule for next month.

According to the timetable for the internal election, all aspirants who have taken nomination forms to run for various positions in the party at the constituency level have today and tomorrow to file their nominations.

However, CoreNews’ source at the party’s office has revealed that at the end of the first day for filing of nomination forms, only 2 aspirants have filed their forms.

They are: Joseph Dongkaraa, a Constituency Deputy Secretary hopeful and Bayuo Mathew, an Executive Member hopeful.

But it is predicted that the remaining majority will be filing their nominations tomorrow.

Vetting of aspirants is expected to take 3 days starting from 30th of September to 2nd October, 2022.

Meanwhile, Political watchers claim there are two main camps in the party’s internal election: the Ernest Nindor-led camp allegedly sponsored by an alliance of NDC Parliamentary candidate hopefuls and the Cletus Seidu Dapilah allegedly sponsored camp led by David Yeng.

Source: corenewsgh.com

The chief and people of Charile, a Community in Eggu Electoral Area in the Wa West District have held a durbar to address some key challenges affecting residents of the community.

The durbar was held at the weekend with the District Health Director, Madam Cecilia Kakariba, and a representative of the Member of Parliament (MP) in attendance.

Addressing the durbar, the Wa West District Health Director, Madam Cecilia Kakariba, commended the residents of Charile for their efforts in building Community-Based Health Planning and Service (CHPS) Compound.

The Community took the initiative to build a CHPS compound for the community to help bring healthcare services closer to the People.

According to her, it has been a remarkable record by the people of Charile ever since she has been working in the health sector.

The Health Director assured Charile people of Solar panel; shelve in the CHPS Compound, accreditation of their CHPS, and additional nurses among others to enhance quality health delivering.

The Assembly Member of the area, Mr. Ephraim Dassah, stated the lack of electricity in the community as one major development challenge in the community.

He said the lack of electricity affects the operation of the Community-Based Health Planning and Service (CHPS) Compound.

The Chairman of the CHPS Compound Management Committee, Mr. Samy Samabo, appealed to the district health directorate and stakeholders to help them with Solar panel at the CHPS Compound help improve services delivery at the facility.

Madam Alberta Azaah, the District CHPS Coordinator, applauded the community members for making the CHPS their first port of call when they fall sick and encouraged them to continuous attending.

She lamented the high record of malaria and cholera cases which are still existing and increasing at every CHPS Compound.

Source: Info Radio

Inhabitants in the Sissala enclave have appealed to people in leadership positions from the area, to make development their prime concern to bridge the development gap in the Upper West Region.

They said the entire Sissalla area had been ignored, largely neglected and forgotten not because the area detested development, but because its leaders had not made any conscious effort to chart the path of development.

According to residents, it was not late for the area’s people occupying leadership positions to make amends by having a sober reflection on how to help bring the needed development to the people.

Speaking to the GNA, in separate interviews across the enclave, some of them threatened to either bar politicians from campaigning there or abstain from voting since they never benefited enough from the national cake.

They mentioned specifically the poor road infrastructure as the bane of the area’s progress, a situation they said must be reversed.

Mr Yussif Napuna, the president of the Sissalla Youth Forum (SYF), said the Sissala enclave was food producing area, which could feed the entire nation but due to neglect, the area lagged in many things.

“Our leaders have been a total failure. They occupy key positions but sadly, they either lack lobbying skill or they are not bothered about the predicament of the area,” Mr Napuna said.

He said the Sissala Youth Forum had been spearheading the development agenda of the area but that no one seemed to be listening or trying to help address the poor road network problem.

“No one is thinking about us. We have influential chiefs too, but we don’t know the roles they are playing in salvage the situation. Our politicians too appear to be clueless on how to help to tar our roads,” he said.

Mr Jonas Dimah Batong, a resident of Welembelle in the Sissalla East Municipality, decried the lack of unity among chiefs and other opinion leaders, who over the years embarked on divisive missions that continued to derail the development of the area.

He said, “Chieftaincy is affecting the development of the area because there is no unity” and that there was a need for the people to work with a common purpose.

“There are so many challenges in Sissala land, the major one being our roads. There is no tarred road linking any of the Sissalla districts, yet we are the largest producer of cereals in the whole country,” he said.

Kuoro Buktie Limann IV, the paramount chief of the Gwollu Traditional Area, said the Sissallas were shortchanged in development, especially road infrastructure.

He explained that Dr Hilla Limann, Ghana’s president of the third Republic coming from the Sissalla land should have been a motivating factor to tar at least a road leading to his hometown.

“Slave trade also owes its root from this area and the traces of slave trade such as the Gwollu Anti-Slavery Defense wall is still available for tourism, but the area had been neglected”, he said.

Hajia Asana Senjeh, a market Queen, said as a people they felt cheated because governments refused to construct roads in the area to propel development.

She said the situation was collapsing businesses since it was no longer profitable to engage in “Buy and sell” due to the poor road network and lack of reliable transportation.

Others also added their voice to the deplorable nature of the included members of the GPRTU and some government workers in the area.

Mr Amidu Chinnia Issahaku, the MP for the Sissalla East constituency told the GNA that the NPP government was committed to developing and improving the road network in the area.

Mr Issahaku, who is also a deputy Sanitation and Water Resources Minister, assured that the Tumu-Navrongo stretch of the road would be tarred very soon.

He said the development was a continuous process and appealed to the people to remain patient since the national cake would be distributed equitably.

Source: GNA