A deputy Communications Director of the New
Patriotic Party (NPP), Anthony Abayifa Karbo says rather than to criticize Nana
Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo for his one-village-one-dam policy, people should applaud
him for coming out with practicable solution to the problems of the people of
the three northern regions.In his view, the triple-effect policy when
implemented if he wins the mandate of the people to govern the country will
bring an end to the continuous migration from the north to the south, create
jobs for the people, improve livestock rearing and above all enable the country
to become sufficient in food production.
Karbo who is also the
parliamentary candidate for Lawra interacting with Fiifi Banson on Anopa Kasapa
on Kasapa 102.5 FM Monday said the absence of dams for irrigation farming is
having a negative impact on the people in the three northern regions.
For
instance, he said the regions out of the 12 months period only farm for four
months and then migrate to especially, the Brong Ahafo region where there is
rainfall throughout the year to search for jobs.
This practice, coupled
with others, he noted, is not the best for the regions going forward, believing
that it only when dams are constructed for irrigation farming purposes that the
living standards of the people would be improved.
“As we speak, over 40%
of the population in Brong Ahafo is coming from the three northern regions. You
would ask yourself why they are moving. They are moving because out of the 12
months, only four months are used for farming purposes. In October the rain
season will cease and all of them will move to the Brong Ahafo region because
over there farming is all year round affair. So, the only way to reverse the
rural-urban migration is to create the environment which is the construction of
these dams. With the dams, apart from encouraging dry season agriculture where
our brothers and sisters will be planting carrots, cabbage among other things to
support their livelihoods, it will also help improve livestock
rearing”.
“If you have water, the cows, the goats, the pigs can use water
and livestock rearing will really help grow the agriculture sector. They farm
animals travel very far away in the Saharan to look for food and water. It will
also help create jobs in the country. So, with this, nobody should underestimate
the power of this one-village-one-dam policy. It has triple effect”, he
noted. |
