Wegbe Kpalime (V/R), Dec 10, GNA- The Government would soon rehabilitate the major and feeder roads in the South Dayi District to accelerate the socio-economic development of the newly created district. Mrs. Woyram Boakye-Danquah, the District Chief Executive (DCE), of the South Dayi District announced this last Saturday, during a durbar of chiefs and people of the Kpalime Traditional area at Webge Kpalime to mark the climax of the celebrations of the Kpalikpakpa festival. The DCE said the Toh-Tongor-Dzemeni and the Agordake-Tongor roads are a priority for the district and would be tackled during the roads rehabilitation exercise.

The festival is celebrated annually in remembrance of the valour exhibited by the ancestors of the people of Kpalime traditional area during their migration from Notsie in Togo. The migration started when they could no longer tolerate the unprecedented tyranny of King Agorkoli, until they got to their present place of settlement.

The occasion is also to re-kindle the ancestral spirit of unity among the people as well as raising funds for the development of the traditional area.

Mrs. Boakye-Daquah said the government was doing all it could to improve the living standards of the people and that arrangements for the provision of potable water and improvement of educational structures have almost been completed.

She urged the people to embrace the policies of the government and support its development programmes.

" The National Health Insurance Scheme, the Youth Employment Programme, the Capitation grant and the school feeding programme was a testimony of the good governance of the NPP government so embrace them", she advised the people.

The DCE asked the people especially the women to form groups to enable them to access loans from government institutions to expand their businesses to help reduce poverty in their respective communities.

Dr Kwame Ampofo, Member of Parliament of the area, on his part mention projects and programmes that he had initiated for the district, including the awarding of scholarships to over twenty students in some second cycle schools he sponsored with his share of the Common Fund. Torgbui Agbi Yao, the seventh, the paramount chief of the Kpalime traditional area in a speech read on his behalf called on the government to take immediate steps to rehabilitate the roads in the area to facilitate easy movement of farm products to the buying centers. He complained of the lack of portable water and poor educational structures in the area as well as the absence of nurses at the only health center.

Togbui Yao commended his people for contributing towards the development of the area. 10 Dec 06