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Make Clear Budgetary Allocation To SADA – CSO’s

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A coalition of Civil Society Organizations in the SADA zone have called on government to make clear a budgetary allocation to the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority in the supplementary budget to be presented to parliament on Monday.

In a statement, the coalition indicated that although section 18 of the SADA Act 805 of 2010 enjoins government to finance SADA through annual budgetary allocation, the authority is continuously neglected and denied national resource allocation.

It acknowledged that SADA faced various challenges in its early days but indicated that the authority has restructured and strategized to help unlock the economic potential of the SADA zone through its agricultural-led transformation adding that it still remains the only viable development vehicle to move Ghana speedily into achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

“From broad based and high level consultations, SADA has come up with a road map to unlock the huge development potentials of the Northern Savannah areas of Ghana through an Agricultural-led transformation.”

The statement further mentioned that “the SADA zone is an economic reservoir and Ghana’s sleeping giant which needs increased investment to wake it up and tap into it for the total transformation of the Ghanaian economy.”

The statement noted that although several calls have been made on the government through the Minister of State in charge of development, parliament, regional ministers in the zone, the Authority has continuously suffered neglect from government which the statement mention that has not gone down well with many Ghanaians especially those from the SADA zone.

The coalition believes SADA has been repositioned under the new board and management to live its mandate and have therefore called on government not to disappoint Ghanaians again, particularly those from the Northern savannah ecological zone by resourcing SADA from the 2016 supplementary budget.

By: Offei-Akoto Ayeh | A1RADIOONLINE.com |GHANA


 

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