Members of Wa East District

Assembly on Tuesday confirmed Mr Aminu Salifu as Wa East

District Chief Executive.
He polled 19 votes with six against, representing 76 per cent of

the votes cast at a special meeting at Funsi.
Mr Salifu thanked the members and asked for their cooperation

and support to help manage affairs of the district.
He said the development needs and challenges of the district

were enormous and appealed to other stakeholders to collaborate

with the members to help address them.
Mr Salifu called for peace and unity among the different ethnic

and political groups in the district to enable government bring

development to the area for the benefit of the people.
Mr Mahmud Khalid, Upper West Regional Minister, said Wa

East District was the most deprived district in the country.
He said for the past five years since it was created; it still had no

communication network system, no electricity, no potable water and

no senior high school to cater for students from the district.
Mr Khalid said the district had some of the deplorable roads in

the Region and the only health centre lacked qualified staff to

provide quality health care services to the people.
He appealed to the assembly members to cooperate with Mr

Salifu to spearhead the development agenda of the district.
Mr Khalid gave the assurance that NDC Government would not

discriminate in the distribution of development projects and the

district would get its fair share of the national cake.