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Regional News of Monday, 15 September 2014

Source: Samuel Ablordeppey

We won't turn our backs on you - Northern chiefs to prez

The chiefs and people of Tamale in the Northern region have reposed their confidence in president Mahama for keeping his campaign promises to the region.
The chiefs said since ingratitude is the hallmark of infidelity, they wished to express their gratitude to the president and the NDC government for taken quite a number of significant projects to the region.
Not quite long ago the president put a smile on the faces of the chiefs and people in the area when hi inaugurated the modern office complexes for both the National Health Insurance. ... and the National Communions Authority (NCA) including the complete ti on of first phase of major rehabilitation works at the Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH).
Those projects the chiefs said holds the key to opening doors of employment for the unemployed youth in the area and other indirect jobs.
A few days ago the president who is a son from the North stormed the region, Tamale to be specific to cut sod for the commencement of work on the Tamale Airport. The hundred million dollars expansion works ongoing at the Tamale Airport which the Brazilian contractor Queiroz Galvao had pledged to complete it by September next year will create thousands of direct and indirect employment.
The president inspected an affordable housing project at Lahagu, then to Kotingli to commission a rural electrification project where twenty two communities were connected to the National grid. This was in fulfilment to a request by the chiefs during the 2012 campaign.
The president also cut sod for work to start on the conversion of the Aboabo supermarket into Shea Nut market.
Speaking to citizenghana. Com some residents of Tamale said "we regret for not voting for the NDC and John Dramani Mahama in the 2012 elections due to deceit. We will not turn our backs on the NDC and President Mahama in the 2016 elections.
Hajia Fati is a yam dealer and she said "we the women of Tamale wish to thank the president for keeping to his promise. At least we don't have to waste money and time to Accra to Meddina to perform Hajj.
All these developments would bring money and development to the region. "
Abu is unemployed indicated that "the president has done well for our region. We thank him and help him develop the other regions so our brothers and sisters will get work to do."
"The president is doing well and if all these projects are complete it will contribute in no small way to bridge the developmental gap between the North and the South," Andani asserted.