A 46- year-old Medical Assistant, Mrs Georgina B Bansarigya, has been en-skinned as Queen Mother for the Baare Traditional Area in the Talensi District.
En-skinning the Queen Mother in his palace, the Chief of the Baare, Naba Naba Nyaakora Mantii, said it took a broad consultation of elders and opinion leaders from the area to enskin the Queen Mother whom he noted was much focused and development oriented.
He appealed to the people, particularly women, to give the Queen Mother the maximum support to enable her bring more development to the area.
He said the decision to en-skin a Queen Mother for the area was a directive from the National House of Chiefs.
The Queen Mother whose skin name is "Pognaba Nemalteng", meaning development oriented One, said one of the major problems she helped address in the community was to ensure that people in the area practiced family planning, by sensitizing both women and men.
She said the issue of malnutrition was a setback to the community and explained that it was not that there was no food in the area but lack of knowledge on how to adopt the practice of good nutrition.
"I will embark upon a vigorous education programme to school mothers on good nutrition so as to help curb malnourishment of people especially children in the area".
She expressed regret at dropout rate of female students in the community and said most of them stopped school because of teenage pregnancies and early marriages.
The youth Chief, Bisnab Asampana Anangton who was also en-skinned by the Chief, pledged to eoganise peace talks among the various groups in the community to pave way for development.