The Member of Parliament (MP) for Asin North,
Kennedy Agyapong has descended heavily on the current and past governments for
failing to do the right investment in the Northern Sector of Ghana to end or
reduce the overwhelming poverty situation in the area.He equally
chastised all the rich and influential Northerners who are making huge
investments outside the North for failing to go back home and take advantage of
the vast but wasting lands, suitable for any agricultural or industrial
purposes.
Speaking on Adom TV’s Badwam Show hosted by Omanhene Kwabena
Asante on Tuesday, the outspoken MP could not hide his disappointment in all the
governments for their gratuitous leadership blunder and lack of vision to
discover the huge potentials that abound in the three Northern
Regions.
Mr Agyapong, who claimed to have visited some parts of the North
recently, expressed the need for Ghana to redirect attention to the North and
possibly move the national capital to the North, where lands are in abundance
for heavy industrialisation, real estate development, solar energy facilities
and most especially agricultural development of the nation.
The three
Northern Regions of Ghana (Upper East, Upper West and Northern Regions) have
great human capital but are regarded as the poorest regions in Ghana. Several
thousands of the energetic youth (male and female) consistently migrate to the
southern part of Ghana and the neighbouring countries for menial
jobs.
They have no place to stay and the streets become their executive
abode. They mingle with armed robbers and drug addicts.
Some get rapped
or defiled and others get unwanted pregnancies or contract diseases. Apart from
developing smoking and drinking habits, others also become commercial sex
workers and armed robbers just to earn a living.
Successive governments
have paid several lip services to repatriate these young people and establish
them in gainful employments in their communities.
However, the Asin North
MP, Kennedy Agyapong, believes the poverty in the north could be blamed on the
irresponsibility of governments and other rich and influential natives of the
area, who were making huge investments in the Southern part of Ghana and
internationally, instead of going back home.
Mr Agyapong who claimed to
have felt in love with the North assured of directing some substantial resources
to invest heavily in the area.
“I could not believe the north has so much
beautiful lands and water. The area is good for sugarcane, rice, maize, tomato,
pepper and cashew and mango plantations among others”.
The MP, therefore,
encouraged the Northerners to return home and give back to their people and
reduce the rate of unemployment and poverty facing the people. |
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