Bolgatanga Municipal Chief Executive, Joseph Amiyuure has called on the people of Sherigu to remain calm and forge together with its neighboring community, Sumbrungu in order to help develop the municipality and the region at large.
Mr. Amiyuure appealed to the two communities not to engage in grudges but rather remain resolute and brainstorm together at eradicating poverty which is a number one energy of the region.
The MCE made these remarks when he met the youth and people of Sherigu, a community in the Bolgatanga municipality following disagreements between its members and neighboring Sumbrungu community over the sitting of a supposed regional airport for the Upper East.
It will be recalled that the people of Sumbrungu held a press conference to drum home their concerns over a ‘relocation’ of a site for the said project. This among other things also pushed the people of Sherigu who came out in their numbers to ‘clarify’ the air on the subject matter.
But Mr. Amiyuure playing a fatherly role for the two communities and other communities in the municipality said “Sherigu and Sumbrungu people are neighbors and nothing like the airport should separate us. We eat together at the same food joints, we farm closer and even we intermarry. So let’s not mud the long term reputation we have for each other because of the project.”
He added that “my interest is the whole of Bolgatanga Municipality and not Sherigu or Sumbrungu only. So wherever the project is sited, let us embrace it.
Mr. Amiyuure on the occasion announced some of government’s policies which he said when fully implemented will create jobs for the teaming unemployed youth in the municipality in order to eradicate poverty. Among these programs according to him include the planting for food and jobs, the One village One dam policy, 1 district 1 factory, 1 million dollar per constituency among others.
He added that plans are far advanced to connect all communities in the municipality to the national grid while providing potable drinking water to the community members. On education, Mr. Amiyuure said the municipality will get its share of the national cake to ensure that all communities get the needed teaching and learning materials and infratructure.
A youth advocate of Sherigu, Johnson Ayine commended the MCE for taking steps to end the misunderstanding between the two communities. Mr. Ayine assured the MCE that “we and the people of Sumbrungu are neighbors and we will forever remain same irrespective of where the airport is sited.”
By: Joshua Asaah|A1radioonline.com|Ghana
