Nana Addo Urges Upper East Chiefs To Abolish Negative Cultural Practices Against Women, Children

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Nana Addo Urges Upper East Chiefs To Abolish Negative Cultural Practices Against Women, Children

Traditional rulers in the Upper East Region have been urged by the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to stop all the negative cultural practices especially those that are injurious to development and integrity of women and children.

The President appealed to them to do away with practices such as widowhood rights, femal genital mutilation and child-marriage among others.

Addressing members of the Upper East Regional House of Chiefs as part of his two day's official tour of the region, Nana Akufo-Addo also called on the chiefs to support the government's fight against social injustices, bad environmental practices like ‘’ Galamsay’’ and corruption.

On the other hand, President Akufo-Addo assured the Chiefs and people of Upper East Region of benefiting from the 111 Districts Hospitals earmarked for construction in districts without hospitals.

He mentioned Binduri, Builsa South, Kassena Nankana West, Nabdam, Pusiga, Bolgatanga East and Tempane as some of the beneficiary districts.

Nana Addo added that enough accommodation would also be provided for medical personnel to make them fully functional.
According President Akufo- Addo,since his assumption in office, 1,488 various projects have been executed in the Upper East Region including 688 completed and 800 on- going. He explained further that out of the 688, 94 are in the educational sector, 20 in the health sector, 13 in the road sector and 269 are under the water and sanitation sector.

He also cut sod for the construction of waste recycling and composite plant, a project by Zoomlion Company Ltd, a Private Organization under Water and Sanitation Ministry, to process waste into fertilizer at Sherigu suburb of Bolagtanga Central Constituency.
President Akufo-Addo inspected on-going works on an inland port at Paga in the Kassena–Nankana West District.

The President appealed to residents in the region to give him and all the fifteen New Patriotic Party Parliamentary Candidates a resounding victory in the upcoming December 7 general elections to continue all the major intervention projects started under his regime.
He particularly touched on the Pwalugu Multi-purpose Dam in the Talensi District as the single most biggest investment in the Northern Sector of Ghana since independence costing nearly one billion dollars. The project, if completed will reduce the perennial flooding problem, provide water for irrigation activities, generate hydro-power and provide jobs to over thousands of people.