University lecturer made development chief

Lambussie (U/W), Feb. 07, GNA - the Paramount Chief of

the Lambussie Traditional Area, Kuoro Alhaji Iddrisu Bamiae

Yesseh III, has outdoored Professor Emmanuel Boon as 93Too

Osoo Kuoro" (Development Chief) at Lambussie. Kuoro Alhaji Iddrisu Bamiae Yesseh said the Council had

conferred on Prof. Boon the title because of the dedicated

services he had been rendering to the people in the district. He said since the creation of the district three years ago, Prof

Boon had shown commitment to the health, education, agriculture

and water and sanitation sectors. He said Prof. Boon had donated two ambulances to the

Lambussie and Karni Health centres. Kuoro Alhaji Iddrisu Bamiae Yesseh said Prof Boon also

supported the Ghana Education Service in capacity building for

teachers and rehabilitated the Lambussie Local Authority Primary

School, the Piina Junior High School and the Karni Primary

School. Prof. Boon collaborated with the assembly to mechanise

boreholes in the Lambussie cluster of schools and Piina Senior

High School. Mr. Clement B. Benin, the Lambussie/Karni District Chief

Executive, said Prof Boon was supporting the disabled in

vegetable production at Karni and planned to expand the dam to

enhance dry season farming. "Let me appeal to the sons and daughters of this land to

complement the efforts of the assembly by investing in the

construction of residential accommodation which would enable us

to attract quality manpower to handle the numerous development

challenges of the district," he said. He said staff posted to the district turned down the posting due

to inadequate residential accommodation. Prof Boon, a lecturer in Belgium, said he never thought such an

honour would come to pass in his life, especially in his own

district and thanked the chiefs and people of the district for the

honour done him. He said: 93It is not because I want a name that I brought

development to the district; my hard work is an inspiration I had

from the elders and chiefs in the area." Prof Boon, the Chairman of the International Centre for

Enterprise and Sustainable Development (ICED), a non-

governmental organisation, appealed to the chiefs to do same to

some of the sons and daughters from the area who are also

contributing in diverse ways towards the development of the

district. The ICED has been supporting farmers in the Sissala West

and Sissala East districts with guinea fowls from Belgium and pigs

from Pong Tamale Veterinary College. The NGOs support has enable the farmers to focus on the

scientific and commercial production of guinea fowls and pigs in

the two districts to enhance sustainable agriculture, improve

livelihoods and reduce poverty.