Samuel Sarpong, Central Regional Minister, has called on the people in the region to unite and play their respective roles to help move the development agenda forward.

He said divisions slowed down progress and if the chiefs and people had the growth of the area at heart, then they must be prepared to bury their differences and live in harmony.

Mr Sarpong made the call when he paid a courtesy call on the chiefs of Assin Fosu on Wednesday as part of his familiarization tour of Assin North Municipality.

The minister is embarking on a six-week familiarization tour of the region after his assumption of office some two months ago. He asked the chiefs and people to live in peace because conflicts breed divisions and impede development.

Mr Sarpong also visited the Fosu College of Education where Dr Nana Kwaku Asiedu, Principal, enumerated a number of challenges facing the school to include lack of school bus and inadequate accommodation for females who out-number the males.

The minister pledged to do his best to develop infrastructure of the school and urged the students to study hard, be disciplined and endeavour to excel for the benefit of their communities and the nation as a whole.

Mr Sarpong later held a meeting with heads of department at theAssin North Municipal Assembly and assured them that government subvention would soon be released to facilitate their work.

He urged them to change their attitude towards work and be more diligent if they were to achieve their set goals and that all incentives needed would be provided by government. Nana Afransie IV, Divisional Chief of the Assin Atandansu Traditional Area, appealed to the minister to use his good offices to have communities without electricity hooked onto the national grid as soon as practicable.

He said roads leading to many communities in the area were not tarred and this brought difficulties to the people adding that their calls to successive governments to have the problems resolved fell on deaf ears.