The Paramount Chief of the Lambussie Traditional Area, Kuoro Alhaji Iddrisu Bamiae Yesseh III, has outdoored Professor Emmanuel Boon as “Too Osoo Kuoro” (Development Chief) at Lambussie.
Kuoro Alhaji Iddrisu Bamiae Yesseh said the Council had conferred on Prof. Boon the title because of the dedicated services he had been rendering to the people in the district.
He said since the creation of the district three years ago, Prof Boon had shown commitment to the health, education, agriculture and water and sanitation sectors.
He said Prof. Boon had donated two ambulances to the Lambussie and Karni Health centres.
Kuoro Alhaji Iddrisu Bamiae Yesseh said Prof Boon also supported the Ghana Education Service in capacity building for teachers and rehabilitated the Lambussie Local Authority Primary School, the Piina Junior High School and the Karni Primary School.
Prof. Boon collaborated with the assembly to mechanise boreholes in the Lambussie cluster of schools and Piina Senior High School.
Mr. Clement B. Benin, the Lambussie/Karni District Chief Executive, said Prof Boon was supporting the disabled in vegetable production at Karni and planned to expand the dam to enhance dry season farming.
“Let me appeal to the sons and daughters of this land to complement the efforts of the assembly by investing in the construction of residential accommodation which would enable us to attract quality manpower to handle the numerous development challenges of the district,” he said.
He said staff posted to the district turned down the posting due to inadequate residential accommodation.
Prof Boon, a lecturer in Belgium, said he never thought such an honour would come to pass in his life, especially in his own district and thanked the chiefs and people of the district for the honour done him.
He said: “It is not because I want a name that I brought development to the district; my hard work is an inspiration I had from the elders and chiefs in the area.”
Prof Boon, the Chairman of the International Centre for Enterprise and Sustainable Development (ICED), a non-
governmental organisation, appealed to the chiefs to do same to some of the sons and daughters from the area who are also contributing in diverse ways towards the development of the district.
The ICED has been supporting farmers in the Sissala West and Sissala East districts with guinea fowls from Belgium and pigs from Pong Tamale Veterinary College.
The NGOs support has enable the farmers to focus on the scientific and commercial production of guinea fowls and pigs in the two districts to enhance sustainable agriculture, improve livelihoods and reduce poverty.