Kandiga-Kurugu (UER), March 13,GNA - The Assembly Member for Kandiga-Kurugu in the Kassena-Nankan District of the Upper East Region, Mr. Rudolf Amenga -Etego on Monday announced plans to set up an independent fund for the youth in the area to go into vegetable farming and guinea fowl rearing.

Mr Amenga-Etego who made this known in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, at Kandiga, in the Kasena-Nankana District, expressed regret about the spate of migration of the youth from the area to the southern sector of the country to do menial jobs, where many of them are exposed to HIV/AIDS and other diseases.

Mr Amenga-Etego who is also a Legal and Development Consultant, advised the youth to take advantage of the fund.

He commended the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFUND) for the construction of a six-classroom block with library and toilet facilities for primary and Junior Secondary schools in the area and appealed to parents to send all their children of school going age to school. He pledged to sponsor the first best six girls who performed very well at the Basic Education Certificate Examination to senior secondary schools.

He exhorted school children to take their education seriously by studying harder since it was the bedrock of development. The Assemblyman indicated that with the collaboration of the Kassena Nankana District Assembly, a community health post and nutrition centre had been provided and pleaded with the Assembly to equip the facility with staff and the needed logistics.

He called on the Government to help provide potable water, desilt dams in the area and construct new ones to facilitate farming especially in the dry seasons.