Mr Issifu Alidu Laa-Bandow, Zabzugu District Chief Executive(DCE), has called on the citizenry and other stakeholders in the November 7, presidential and parliamentary elections to ensure peace and national cohesion.

“We are living in peace and let us continue to so during the elections,”he told Ghana News Agency in an interview at Zabzugu, the district capital in the Northern Region.

He said as part of the President’s Better Ghana Agenda, the district is benefiting from the expansion of its water system under the Sustainable Rural Water and Sanitation project.

The project being funded by government and the World Bank is at its completion.

He said the acute water shortage that normally occurs during the dry season would soon become a thing of the past.

The district assembly with support from World Vision Ghana is also drilling 13 boreholes in 12 communities.

The beneficiary communities are Sabari-Mognegu, Wasado, Mantili, Zokurli, Sakpali Dibaani, Omoado, Mangoasi, Kpalidigbeni, Ogniodo, Binambado and Kinyogbado.

Mr Laa-Bandow said feeder roads are also being constructed at Bitido-Gor Tani-Dagbabaani-Gor Kuani under the better Ghana Agenda to facilitate movement of goods and services and boost the local economy.

He said Kukpaligu, Kuntumbiyili, Gor-Kuani, Gor-Lanayili, Gbandi, Omoldou, and Pagmoado are being connected to the National Electricity Grid under the Rural Electrification Programme.

The district had received 1,179 school uniforms, which were supplied to basic school 545 dual desks were also supplied to schools.

Under the Ghana Partnership for Education Grant, which aims at improving teaching and learning at basic schools, the district has benefitted from 100 teacher tables and chairs, 70 bicycles for pupils living at far places.

He called for Public Private Partnership to shore up development in the district.

In a related development Mr Laa-Bandow said the district assembly had responded to an appeal made by the Management and Parent Teacher Association of Zabzugu Senior High School to help complete a dormitory block being undertaking to decongest the few existing dormitories.

The school was offered 15 packets of roofing sheets and four Rambo 250 polytanks to the school at a short ceremony.

He said education is one of the core thematic areas of the President’s Better Ghana Agenda and he being his appointee must facilitate the process in the district.

Mr Laa-Bandow said the project would accommodate about 200 female students.

He said the district assembly would soon mechanise the school borehole.

Mr Philip Issahaku Ziblim, District Director of Education, commended Mr Laa-Bandow for the keen interest he has shown in education.