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| Adaklu Mountain |
Jubilation engulfed the entire Adaklu traditional
area last Thursday as the chiefs and people of area defied a heavy downpour to
celebrate the inauguration of their new Adaklu district at Adaklu Waya, the
district capital in the Volta region.
The chiefs who were dressed in their royal regalia
with hundred of their enthusiastic subjects clad in white were drumming and
dancing in the heavy rain which delayed the programme for hours.
Mr. Francis Segbefia, Assembly Member for Waya the
creation of the district for the area was not an easy task as they have been
lobbying since 2003. ‘It took us warfare of intense dialogue, press
conferences, agitations and demonstrations for us to have this district’ he
emphasized.
Mr. Segbefia however said, the creation of the
district would change the development agenda of the Adaklu traditional area.
Delivering the inaugural address on behalf of
President Mills, Mr. Henry Ford Kamel Volta regional minister said the creation
of new Assemblies represented the fulfillment of one of the many promises in
the 2008 National Democratic Congress (NDC)
manifesto.
He said the establishment of new districts would
deepen democracy and decentralization towards a better Ghana.
He said government expected “nothing less than
full and active” participation of the chiefs and people in the Assembly.
He said a District Resourcing Programme was being
worked out within the framework of the recently launched Public Private
Partnership Strategy, to provide each assembly with an office block, assembly
hall and bungalows for its staff.
Mr. Kamel said basic needs strategy was also being
worked out to ensure a minimum of two senior high schools, a district hospital,
potable water and electricity for the district capital and access road to the
district capital.
The Paramount chief of Adaklu Traditional area,
Togbe Gbogbi Atsa V, who was full of praise for the government, pledged the
readiness of traditional authorities to make the Adaklu District a point of
reference for excellence in good governance.
“We want to
assure the President that if local governance would become a tourist attraction
in Ghana, it will surely start from the Adaklu District Assembly”, he said.
He said the chiefs and people of the traditional
area were grateful to the President for fulfilling his campaign promise, and
they would reciprocate the gesture by using the district as an instrument for
development of the area.
Togbe Atsa commended the people for their
resilience and support during the ‘fight’ for the district and urged them to
support the new Assembly to grow.
The Adaklu traditional area consists of over forty
small towns and villages which has enormous agricultural and tourism
potentials.
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