Tahiru Issahaku Ahmed, the District Chief Executive for the Bawku West, is prepared to make agriculture viable in the district. According to Mr. Ahmed, the district has a large population of young people who grow a variety of vegetables. As a result, he is willing to give the local farmers the assistance they need to expand their agricultural operations.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with A1 Radio’s Mark Smith, Mr. Ahmed said considering the agricultural potentials in the area, with a little push from authorities it will go a long way to boost the local economy in the district.
“I want to see that every single person who is not lazy, who wants to produce something can have the facility to go there and produce any vegetables, so that he can send something to the market and take back home money. But not to pick money from the house and send it to the market and ‘kill’ it there and come back home. That is not what we need to do. We need to produce and get the benefits of our produce, that is what I just want to establish and I believe that will straighten our economy or our local economy better than just sitting down and thinking that things will be done by somebody else,” he said.
Touching on the issue of over 1,700 Burkina Faso citizens who are currently seeking refuge in his district due to attacks in that country, Mr. Ahmed called on the residents of Bawku West district to be very vigilant and report suspected behaviours to the security services.
Source:A1Radioonline.Com|101.1MHZ|David Azure| Bolgatanga|
