Veep urges entrepreneurs to create more jobs

Suhum (E/R), Oct. 29, GNA- The Vice-President, Alhaji Aliu Mahama has called on entrepreneurs in Suhum to take advantage of the government micro credit and small loan fund programmes to expand and start new businesses to create employment in the area.

He urged the people to take advantage of the great potential of the area in agriculture to establish agro-processing enterprises. Alhaji Aliu was speaking at the Odwira Festival of the Chiefs and people of Suhum at Suhum on Saturday.

He congratulated the people of Suhum for maintaining the ethnic balance and harmony in the town and urged the people to resort to peaceful ways of settling their differences as and when they occur. Alhaji Aliu said the government has absorbed the Suhum Islamic Girls High School into the public school system in order to give it the desired focus and attention with respect to girl child education. He said the government had approved for the construction of 20 boreholes under the KFW programme to enable the people in the area to overcome the water and sanitation problem facing them.

Alhaji Aliu said he had been informed that the Western Waters Limited, a drilling company was in the process of drilling boreholes in 17 communities in the district and seven more boreholes had been approved for the area under the Community Based Rural Development Project for which work was to commence soon.

The Member of Parliament(MP) for Suhum, Mr Fredrick Opare Ansah promised to help establish a malti-media centre in the area by January 2007 to help train 100 youth every month to become computer literate at no cost to the youth.

He said since he was elected MP for the area in 2004, he had donated computers to every second cycle school in the area and helped a second division club in the Suhum township, Suhum FC to progress from Division Two to Division one.

Earlier, the Chief of Suhum, Barima Ayeh Kofi II, appealed to teachers to end their strike action and get back to the classroom. He also appealed to government to provide boarding facilities for the Suhum Presbyterian Secondary School and help rehabilitate the road leading to the Suhum Government Hospital.