Walewale (NR), July 26, GNA - Mr Sulley Abudu Zakaria Lord, the District Chief Executive (DCE) of West Mamprusi, has been commended for initiating a number of projects to enhance development in the district.

A statement issued in Walewale at the weekend by a group calling itself Concerned NDC Youth Group at West Mamprusi and signed by its Secretary, Mr David Amozebga, therefore called on the people in the area to support the DCE and ensure that the district receive the needed development to fight hunger, diseases and poverty.

Mr Amozegba said there have been a lot of visible infrastructure projects since the DCE assumed of office some 15 months ago in sectors such as education, health and rural electrification.

Projects in the educational sector included a well furnished community library complex in the Walewale township, two teachers' bungalows at Walewale and Nanguruma, an orphanage school at Wulugu and a three-unit classroom block at Buayini.

Similar school projects have been completed at Yirangu near Kobori, while a six-unit classroom block each has also been built for the people of Gbimsi and Manga.

On Health and Sanitation, Mr Amozebga said the DCE had initiated the establishment of a rural clinic at Loagri No. 2, rehabilitated four public toilets and provided pipe-borne water and electricity. He also negotiated for a medical doctor, who was posted to the district hospital.

Mr Amozebga mentioned other achievements of the DCE as the acquisition of three-faced transformers and 90 low tension electric poles for the Walewale township and a number of low tension poles for Kperiga, Tampulugu and Tinguri communities for enhanced power supply.

He said the DCE in collaboration with the Member of Parliament for the area also assisted farmers to acquire some tractors on high purchase to help them increase food production towards poverty reduction while other farmers got water pumps under the same terms to cultivate some 200 hectares of maize in the Kparipiri and Suhuluya areas during dry season farming.

Mr Amozebga said the pace of development under the DCE was unprecedented in the history of the district and that people in the area especially those in NDC needed to support him to succeed rather than castigate him of baseless and unproductive matters.

He explained that some NDC members numbering about 45 took to the streets of Walewale last week calling for the removal of the DCE because he likes making unpalatable statements and takes unilateral decisions at the Assembly.

"We condemn the demonstration and state emphatically that the so-called NDC youth, who demonstrated, are not a well representation of the good people of the West Mamprusi district and the party as a whole but from a particular family lineage," he emphasized.

He said the NDC needs unity, national cohesion, development and peace to win the 2012 elections saying, "A divided membership will spell NDC doom in 2012".

He called for amicable ways of solving internal problems rather than going public to give political opponents the tools to fight with in 2012.