Members of the Sissala District Assembly on Thursday unanimously confirmed Mr Salifu Dummie Waa, a 53-year-old tutor as the new District Chief Executive (DCE).

Mr Waa replaces Madam Florence Yeyie, the former DCE who died last year in a motor accident on her way to Accra on an official duty.

All the 42 assembly members present voted in favour of the President's nominee, which brought the crowd at the premises of the assembly onto their feet with jubilation.

At the swearing ceremony, Mr Sahanun Mogtari, Upper West Regional Minister commended the assembly members for their unity and purposefulness and urged them to continue to foster unity among themselves to ensure peace.

He called on them to eschew ethnicity, political division and other negative tendencies that undermine development and fight for a common development agenda in the area.

Mr Mogtari called on the new DCE to collaborate effectively with security agencies and other heads of departments.

Mr Moses Dani Baah, Member of Parliament for Sissala also commended the members for unanimously agreeing for the creation of another district to be centred at Gwollu, the hometown of Dr Hilla Liman, former President of the third Republic of Ghana.

Mr Baah who is also the Deputy Minister of Health said the government had approved some funds for deprived people in the three Northern Regions and the Central Regions as the most endemic areas in terms of poverty.

Mr Waa promised to work towards the development of the Sissala District in particular and the whole nation to fulfil the confidence reposed in him by President Kufuor.

"I will do my best to promote and uplift the image of the district to the status of other developed districts in the country."

He commended the people for their political maturity "by putting behind their political cloaks to vote unanimously for me."