Parade Jubilee - Wa

Wa, March 6, GNA - Personnel of the security agencies in Wa and 2,010 pupils from first and second cycles schools and voluntary organisations in the Wa Municipality on Tuesday participated in a colourful parade as the high point to the Golden Jubilee celebration of the country's independence.

Officers and men of the Ghana Police Service, Prisons Service, Ghana National Fire Service, Customs, Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS), the Immigration Service together with pupils selected from 27 primary schools, 26 junior secondary schools, two special schools and eight second cycle schools took part in the parade. Mr Ambose Dery, Upper West Regional Minster flanked by Mr Robert Ayalingo, the Regional Police Commander, took the salute during the march past at the parade under the command of Deputy Superintendent of Police, Mr Peter Ndekugri.

Mr Dery read the President's address in which he urged the youth to stay in the country and use their energies and enthusiasm to serve Ghana and Africa, adding what they would achieve here would be more fulfilling and satisfying than anything they would do elsewhere. The continent, he added, now provided a quicker avenue for financial success than anywhere else.

He paid homage to the founding fathers of the nation, among them being he late S D Dombo, a native of the Region, who struggled to establish the culture of multi-party democracy in the country. 6 March 07