The Yendi Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Hon Hudu Walvis has called on the good people of Yendi and its surrounding communities to gather their strength to fight poverty instead of raising guns against each other.

According to him conflicts and ethnic violence has retarded the progress of the municipality and further scored the agent need for people in the municipality to come on board to reduce if not eliminate poverty completely in the area.

Hon walvis made this statement during an interaction with a cross section of the media and some party faithful of the ruling government at Yendi.

He further saw the need for people to use dialogue to settle their differences instead of violence, stating that  “we have to learn to report issues that affect us to the appropriate offices for redress”.

The MCE observed and expressed his worry about the current situation of the municipality.

He noted that Municipalities and districts that were formed the same day with the Yendi municipality are doing very well and urged the people of the area to see each other as bed fellows to introduce
development to the area.

He indicated that the municipality is strategically positioned and they can take advantage of that to make it a gate way to other districts, but stressed that “violence makes people to refuse postings to Yendi and its surrounding communities.

Hon Walvis continued that “it is a sad experience that despite the straggle and time spent in finding lasting peace in Dagbon some still turn down this holy intervention but rather seek to be in the atmosphere of smoke and fear”.

He lamented that if this continues the generation to come would have several questions to ask why dagombas could not solve a problem as Gagombas. He stressed “Dagbon is the only place that we have and
should protect it with all interest”.

Pointing at some of the lay down activities to give a face lift to the municipality, Hon Walvis disclosed that “we have asked the people all over the municipality to particularly our women to form cooperative groups and we would be helping them any moment from now” he said.

He touched on the education, health, good and portable drinking water, roads among others and said the government through the assembly would help curb all the challenges’ they face but how ever called on them to put in their best to help the government see the need to support the municipality.

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