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 had been finalized.
He said he would cut the sod himself to begin the construction of the road, which is being funded by the Africa Development Bank, saying
with “the numerous development projects my administration is undertaking, the people will have no option but to give me eight years mandate”.
The President said this on Friday 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 belonged to them, adding “You must justify the investment bestowed on you”.
He said the future of the country could only be better-off through human resource development that could be achieved through the acquisition of knowledge and that his government would invest more into education.
The Yabongwura Tumtumba Boresa Sule Jakpa I told the President that by the end of his tenure, all chieftaincy related conflicts in his traditional area and the Northern region would have been resolved to paved way for development to thrive.
He said he would rely on existing institutions in achieving his goal of resolving chieftaincy conflicts and urged interested investors not to worry but 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 remained dear to his heart.
The District Chief Executive for West Gonja, Mr Adams Mutawakilu said the district had so far benefited from 29 educational facilities
most of which were schools-under-trees projects and that by 2012, there would be no school-under-tree in the area.
He said the district had benefited from nine health infrastructural projects in the last two years and more were to be done.
On water, the DCE said the district had benefited from 75 boreholes under the Small Water and Sanitation facility, adding that 166-kilometer roads had been constructed and another 35-kilometer was being funded by the Northern Rural Development Programmme.