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| President Mahama in a handshake with Torgbui Sri |
President John Mahama has hinted of plans to establish the Southern Volta Basin Development Authority to drive the needed development in that part of the country. According to the President, the southern part of the Volta region holds a lots of investment potentials in tourism, aquaculture and other sectors, which needed to be harness through the coordination of such an agency.
The President who was addressing at a durbar at Keta, after a meeting with the chiefs and elders of Anlo on Saturday, indicated that the National Development Planning Commission, (NDPC) has already begun preliminary works on the proposed Volta Basin Development Authority and the government will soon set up an implementation committee to spearhead the establishment of the authority.
The meeting was at the behest of the Awomefia of Anlo, Torgbui Sri III, for the President to update the traditional authorities about government’s projects and programmes in the area. Traditional authorities in the area at various events called for the setting up of an authority to spearhead the holistic development of the area in order to tame the growing levels of unemployment.
