The Member of Parliament for the Bole-Bamboi constituency, Hon. Yussif Sulemana during an annual stakeholder engagement with the Local Council of Churches of the Bole District on Sunday, 2nd January, 2022, has tauted some successes chalked during the year 2021 which is under review.
The engagement was focused on accounting to the people through religious leaders whiles planning and deliberating on issues of development pertaining to the bole District.
He disclosed that there is a project ongoing in the Bole district hospital which is expected to be completed in March, 2022 to serve as a maternity and children’s ward to the people.
He added that the Bole District mortuary which has been out of use for awhile now is going to be revived since he was working with the council of state member to ensure that the needed renovation are done to revive the facility.
On tourism, he noted that he has advanced plans with the necessary authorities to development the royal museums in the Gonja kingdom into tourist sites whiles relocating some of the royal cemeteries out of town most especially that of Balipe in the bole tradition area.
He has stated that over 20 needy but brilliant students in the constituency have been supported to pay their school fees and care for other expenditures in the tertiary level which according to him came from his own account since the MP’s percentage of the common fund hasn’t been paid over 4 quarters.
Hon. Yusif Sulemana also disclosed that one of the major challenges in the district pertaining to agriculture is the constant rivalry between Fulani herdsmen and farmers which he said he has engaged both parties to ensure that a lasting solution is arrived at.
Whiles briefing the clergy on happenings in parliament, the MP stated some questions he has posed to various government appointees, raising discussions for the development of the constituency like the elevation of the Bole District to a municipal and disclosed his stand on certain national issues led in parliament including the LGBTQ+ bill, the controversial E-levy among others and assured the people of participatory representation of the constituency in the chamber.
However, he raised concern about certain abandoned projects in the district of which others have been commissioned but not put to use and promised to write to the audit service to make enquiries of those projects and to make sure that the projects are put to use to benefit the people.
That notwithstanding, the MP donated 23 bags of rice, 2 boxes of frytol oil, 2 boxes of canned tomato sauce mackerel, 20 pieces of 3yards cloths each and an undisclosed amount of money to the clergy.
The clergy thanked him for the kind gesture and assured him of their support in the development of the constituency and hopes that the various concerns tabled previously and in the meeting are given the needed attention.
Source: yagbonradioonline/Issah Zakaria
