Across the country, recognition often arrives too late, etched in marble, but absent from memory when it mattered most.
We are proficient at naming streets after the departed, yet hesitant to open doors for the living.
Our commemorations are grand; our commitments, however, are slow and scattered.
Educators who shaped presidents, scientists who battled invisible enemies, reformers who stood against tides of complacency, these are the real architects of progress.
Yet, in life, they are often left navigating institutional indifference armed only with conviction.
Their ideas are sidelined, their courage, patriotism overlooked.
In death, however, they become our national metaphors, quoted, celebrated, and sometimes sainted.
It is a contradiction we have yet to confront with honesty.
We fund funerals, not visions. We erect statues, not systems of support.
The story of Hon.Seidu Nuhu Banasco is both heroic and haunting.
Banasco Seidu Nuhu is a Ghanaian social entrepreneur, based in Sawla in the Savannah Region of Ghana, a digital literacy advocate, and the Executive Director of NASCO Feeding Minds, a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering rural communities in Ghana through education and technology.
Under his leadership, the organization has focused on providing ICT (Information and Communication Technology) training to rural communities in Ghana, aimed at improving education and reducing migration driven by lack of opportunity.
Banasco has pioneered initiatives that equip young people with modern, in-demand digital competencies, including Data Analytics, Python Development, and Automation Technology, often partnering with international institutions.
He is involved in climate change mitigation, partnering on initiatives such as the Diaspora Climate Bridges Fellowship, which focuses on youth leadership in environmental sustainability and renewable energy.
He was a participant in the 2024 Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders and is known as a passionate change-maker impacting the Savannah Region and beyond.
He has been supporting the digitalization agenda in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba constituency through the establishment of ICT laboratories across various schools in the Sawla -Tuna- Kalba District.
Banasco Seidu Nuhu’s work is characterized by a commitment to transforming rural lives through technology, education, and sustainable development.
By addressing the root causes of digital exclusion and promoting sustainable development, Banasco is creating a ripple effect that will benefit generations yet to come.
His patriotism is real, so is the solitude in which he operates.
This is not a Sawla -Tuna- Kalba story alone. It echoes across Ghana, and far beyond.
But upon all this fortitude and deligence in promoting ICT driven initiatives in the District and beyond, society is waiting for his silence before offering support, and where legacies are celebrated only when the weight of responsibility has passed.
When it comes to leveraging technology for development, Banasco Nasco Feeding Minds,stands out as the only non-governmental organisation in the Savannah Region towards that direction.
Let us celebrate Seidu Nuhu Banasco while he is still among us.
Chipo Kwaku.
News Editor,
Yagbon Radio,
Bole
