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| David Adakudugu, MP, Tempane |
The
Member of Parliament (MP) for Tempane, David Adakudugu, has provided twenty
students in his constituency with a sponsorship package of ten thousand Ghana
cedis (Gh¢10,000).
Development
watchers and particularly the beneficiary families have welcomed this gesture
as a momentous demonstration of commitment by the constituency’s first-ever
legislator to salvage dipping educational standards and to eradicate poverty in
the area. Traditional authorities in the constituency, too, have hailed the
support, saying more of such intervention will keep many children where they
ought to be― the classroom.
Mr.
Adakudugu, who was highly rated by observers as well as the media when he was
the District Chief Executive (DCE) for Garu-Tempane from 2009 to 2012 and
earned several accolades from the Upper East Regional Coordinating Council, has
also provided three hundred mattresses to the Tempane Senior High School where
some underprivileged students once perched on logs to stay the night.
This
follows his donation of one thousand one hundred books for teachers in the
constituency, ten motorcycles for emergency cases in the area and seven
television sets with satellites for some communities in the Garu-Tempane
District where he (now as an MP) has also facilitated the construction of some
classroom blocks just as he did when he was a DCE.
“I
am also presenting two hundred and fifty solar lamps to assist deprived schools
which do not have electricity to provide lights to enable students to learn in
the night,” the MP announced at the eleventh annual Danjour Festival held at
the Kpikpira Primary School at the weekend.
“I
have procured and distributed sixty student mattresses, sixty maternity beds
and sixty benches to all CHPS compounds in the District (Garu-Tempane) and of
which Kpikpira is a beneficiary,” added the MP who in 2013 was credited with
linking up with the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum to pilot the use of Liquefied
Petroleum Gas (LPG) with 1,500 gas cylinders and accessories for a start in
communities across Garu-Tempane.
The
Rural LPG Programme was introduced by the Mahama Administration to cut down
dependence on forests as a source of energy for domestic purposes. Five
thousand more gas cylinders and accessories are expected to be distributed
later to households in the area.
The
Danjour Festival is celebrated by Bimobas in the Garu-Tempane District in
honour of their ancestors for success stories chalked up in every
immediate-past year. The festival also affords natives of the district, home
and abroad, a common platform to identify developmental challenges confronting
the area and to chart a workable way forward.
The
Chief of Kpikpira, Dana Dazuur II, expressed concerns about moral decay
particularly among adolescents in his chiefdom. He observed with displeasure
that teenagers, for lack of self-control, had continued to contract sexually
transmitted infections and die from it in the area.
Whilst advising the youth
to desist from practices that are inimical to their future, the chief also
entreated all parents and school authorities to step up monitoring and
counseling of young people at home and in school.
The
DCE for Garu-Tempane, Albert Akoka, bemoaned the spate of road crash in the
district. He called on all stakeholders to intensify road safety education in
the area to curb the canker.
By Edward Adeti
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