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23rd March, 2010
Kaleo To Enjoy Potable Water
The people of Kaleo, a fast growing town in the Nadowli West Constituency in the Upper West Region would soon enjoy potable water.
This is because work on a GH˘664,000 Small Town Pipe Water System funded by World Bank under the supervision of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) is near completion.
Work on an overhead tank is 90 per cent completed while the laying of PVC pipe lines from the water source to various locations in the town have been completed.
The District Chief Executive for Nadowli, Mr Abu Kansangbata announced this during the celebration of the “Zumbenti Festival” of the Chiefs and people of the Kaleo Traditional Area here on Saturday.
It was under the theme: “Zumbenti Festival: A treasury of New Insights in the Socio-Economic Development of the Nadowli District.”
The festival, which was the fourth time to be celebrated in the area, was to give thanks and praise to God and their ancestors for good health and a bumper harvest and to seek blessings for the years ahead.
It also served as a platform for indigenes to take stock of their achievements and failures and draw up appropriate strategies in the way forward.
Mr Kansangbata said to make water accessible to health facilities, the Assembly had drilled a borehole at the Duong bone setters centre to provide save and potable water to the numerous people who come there from all over the country for the treatment of various kinds of fractures.
He further announced that under the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) funded Northern Rural Growth Programme (NRGP), farmers in the Nadowli District would be assisted to produce vegetable crops such as pepper, okro, watermelon, tomato and cabbage for both the local market and for export.
He said under the programme the Kaleo-Sankena road had been selected for tarring to open up the area to investors and to enhance the carting of vegetables and other foodstuffs to marketing centres.
The District Chief Executive urged the people to take advantage of the programme in order to derive the fullest benefit from it to help reduce poverty and better their lives.
One education, he said, under the District wide Assistance Project (DWAP), a modern dormitory block for the Kaleo Senior High School is to be constructed this year, to help address the acute accommodation problems of students to enhance teaching and learning.
The Upper West Regional Minister, Mr Mahmud Khalid asked the people to take stock of the area’s potential, do a diagnosis of their efforts in the past in order to identify their weaknesses and seek the appropriate solutions in the way forward.
Mr Khalid urged the people of the Kaleo traditional area to burry their differences, put the past behind them, and focus on the future as a people to quicken the pace of development.
“It is important for us to recognize that we cannot make any meaningful progress, if we do not put aside our difference s and unite as one people with a common destiny,” he added.
Mr. Khalid said it was the determination of President Mills, government to take immediate and urgent steps to bridge the development gap by supporting infrastructural development and providing the necessary utilities to tap and mobilize the full economic potential of the area for the benefit of the people.
He explained that significant efforts have been made in the area of agriculture through the provision of tractors and incentives such as subsidized fertilizer and the implementation of programmes such as block farming and the youth in agriculture programme, among others.
The Vice President of the Kaleo Traditional Council, Naa Yelkuma Dogoli Baga 11 said the area abounds in tourism potentials and called for the development of such sites to boost tourism.
Naa Bagah mentioned some of the tourism sites that require development to attract tourists as the Sankana caves and scenic rocks and the Takpo mush room rocks.
He appealed for the rehabilitation of the feeder road network of the area to enhance the carting of food stuffs from farming communities to marketing centres.
This is because work on a GH˘664,000 Small Town Pipe Water System funded by World Bank under the supervision of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) is near completion.
Work on an overhead tank is 90 per cent completed while the laying of PVC pipe lines from the water source to various locations in the town have been completed.
The District Chief Executive for Nadowli, Mr Abu Kansangbata announced this during the celebration of the “Zumbenti Festival” of the Chiefs and people of the Kaleo Traditional Area here on Saturday.
It was under the theme: “Zumbenti Festival: A treasury of New Insights in the Socio-Economic Development of the Nadowli District.”
The festival, which was the fourth time to be celebrated in the area, was to give thanks and praise to God and their ancestors for good health and a bumper harvest and to seek blessings for the years ahead.
It also served as a platform for indigenes to take stock of their achievements and failures and draw up appropriate strategies in the way forward.
Mr Kansangbata said to make water accessible to health facilities, the Assembly had drilled a borehole at the Duong bone setters centre to provide save and potable water to the numerous people who come there from all over the country for the treatment of various kinds of fractures.
He further announced that under the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) funded Northern Rural Growth Programme (NRGP), farmers in the Nadowli District would be assisted to produce vegetable crops such as pepper, okro, watermelon, tomato and cabbage for both the local market and for export.
He said under the programme the Kaleo-Sankena road had been selected for tarring to open up the area to investors and to enhance the carting of vegetables and other foodstuffs to marketing centres.
The District Chief Executive urged the people to take advantage of the programme in order to derive the fullest benefit from it to help reduce poverty and better their lives.
One education, he said, under the District wide Assistance Project (DWAP), a modern dormitory block for the Kaleo Senior High School is to be constructed this year, to help address the acute accommodation problems of students to enhance teaching and learning.
The Upper West Regional Minister, Mr Mahmud Khalid asked the people to take stock of the area’s potential, do a diagnosis of their efforts in the past in order to identify their weaknesses and seek the appropriate solutions in the way forward.
Mr Khalid urged the people of the Kaleo traditional area to burry their differences, put the past behind them, and focus on the future as a people to quicken the pace of development.
“It is important for us to recognize that we cannot make any meaningful progress, if we do not put aside our difference s and unite as one people with a common destiny,” he added.
Mr. Khalid said it was the determination of President Mills, government to take immediate and urgent steps to bridge the development gap by supporting infrastructural development and providing the necessary utilities to tap and mobilize the full economic potential of the area for the benefit of the people.
He explained that significant efforts have been made in the area of agriculture through the provision of tractors and incentives such as subsidized fertilizer and the implementation of programmes such as block farming and the youth in agriculture programme, among others.
The Vice President of the Kaleo Traditional Council, Naa Yelkuma Dogoli Baga 11 said the area abounds in tourism potentials and called for the development of such sites to boost tourism.
Naa Bagah mentioned some of the tourism sites that require development to attract tourists as the Sankana caves and scenic rocks and the Takpo mush room rocks.
He appealed for the rehabilitation of the feeder road network of the area to enhance the carting of food stuffs from farming communities to marketing centres.
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