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| UE Regional Minister Paulina Patience Abayage with the media at residency |
One
of the government’s social intervention programme that touches the heart of the
people in the three regions of the north, especially the Upper East Region is
Nana Addo’s Free Senior High School Policy. The free SHS is to provide
opportunity for all to have access to education, at the SHS level.
There are still many parents who cannot
afford for their children’s education especially in most rural communities in
Ghana. This was disclosed by the Upper East Regional Minister, Paulina Patience
Abayage, during an interaction with the media in Bolgatanga.
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| A cross section of the media with the Minister at the residency |
The interaction
was to familiarized herself with the media and also announce her plans to
develop the region as she takes the mantle of leadership as the first female to
ascent the high office as the Upper East Region Minister.
In a retrospective
look, the Regional Minister re-countered how she suffered during her school
days with her poor parents saying the President Nana Addo’s Free Senior High
School policy is a panacea for the less privilege and brilliant children in the
various communities to have secondary school education.
Ms Abayage said her
appointment by President Nana Addo is simply, asking her to come home as a
daughter of the soil, help champion his vision of creating an optimistic
self-confident and prosperous nation and for that matter, the rapid development
of the Upper East Region.
She cited the numerous social interventions of the
government such as One-Village One-Dam, One-District One-Factory policy among
others, linking the policy up to the defunct Meat and the Tomato Factories as
against the irrigations system for One-Dam, One-Village.
She indicated that,
there is also a proposal before the minister of trade and industry by Professor Miller for a vegetable processing plant
to be established.
These laudable ideas, she added will help improve the lives
of the people of the Upper East Region since the weather, soils and rainfall
patterns are not the best.
Ms Abayage stressed that, she is taking a critical
look into all the ongoing development projects in the region and will move with
the speed of wind to see their completion.
She urged the media to give her
their full support since she cannot do it all alone saying the media plays a
crucial role when it comes to nation building and cautioned the media to be circumspect
in their reportage.
She stated that, continuously chinning out only the
negative stories will not help us as a region.
Ms Abayage said, as a home based
woman, she is very conversant with the nook and cranny of the region and will
leave no stone unturned by executing her duties as expected.
Story
by: GBC’s Emmanuel Akayeti
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