General News of Monday, 16 June 1997

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Help To Develop Fooshegu - Assembly Member Appeals

Fooshegu, (N/R), - 16 June Mr Prince Adam Abukari, Assembly member for Fooshegu in the Tamale municipality, has appealed to the Municipal Assembly to help provide the area with educational facilities and utility services. He said apart from a primary school pavilion and a headteacher's bungalow at Fooshegu, the seven remaining communities in the area have no proper school structures to encourage children of school going age to embrace education. Mr Abukari who was speaking to GRi in Tamale today, said road networks are very bad while the communities have no health facility and potable water. Despite these set-backs, self-help spirit is very high among the people culminating in the execution of a number of development projects. Through this initiative, the people have provided culverts to a number of roads, established a number of woodlots while plans are also under way to put up a clinic at Fooshegu. He commended the department of feeder roads and the municipal assembly for assisting to make some few roads in the area motorable. Mr Abukari appealed to non-governmental organizations carrying out development interventions in the country to extend their services to the area.