Zabzugu (N/R), Dec. 18, GNA - The Zabzugu/Tatale District Assembly is to supply 200 computers to 20 junior high schools (JHS) in the Zabzugu/Tatale District. Funds for the computers would be deducted from the District's share of the Common Fund.

The Zabzugu/Tatale District Chief Executive, Mr Umar Abdul-Wahab, said this when he addressed the ordinary meeting of the Zabzugu/Tatale District Assembly at Zabzugu. He said there was a directive by Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development that all district assemblies must have ICT centres. Touching on development projects Mr Umar said the residential accommodation for the Zabzugu Polyclinic, CHPS Compound for Sangbaa, three-unit classroom block for Tatale Nure Islamic Primary School, and primary School block for Campuni are still under construction. He said part of the funds from the district development facility will also be used to complete the Tatale E.P. Senior High Boys' Hostel.

Mr Umar said the Ghana School Feeding Programme had been expanded to Sabare No. 1 Primary School, Tatale Nure Islamic Primary School, Kukpaligu Primary School, and Torchedo Primary School. Mr Umar assured the assembly members that the assembly shall take delivery of motorbikes for them to help in revenue mobilization. The Presiding Member of the Assembly, Mr Edward Atta Abebe Dawuni, appealed to the Minister for Roads to take serious look at the Zabzugu/Tatale road to Yendi linking Ghana to Togo, Benin and Nigerian which is now in a deplorable state.

Mr Dawuni said CEPS collects a lot of revenue at entry points along the road and about 95 per cent of the farmers in the district use the road to transport their produce to the market. He called on Minister of Energy for extension of electricity to some communities in the district which were earmarked to benefit from the Self-Help Electrification Project (SHEP).

Mr Dawuni said some of the communities are in need of electricity to establish small scale industries. He expressed the assembly's readiness to collaborate with the security agencies, traditional authorities and other stake holders to protect the environment. He said for the decentralization reform proposed to succeed there was the need for the government to take the local government system very serious by paying the allowances and ex-gratia of assembly members from the consolidated fund.

Mr Dawuni said assembly members are the pillars of the decentralization system, because they deal directly with the people at the grass root level.