Youth in Northern Ghana asked to better off their communities

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Mr. Mumuni Sulemana, Upper West Regional Director of the National Youth Authority, has urged the youth to reflect on what accounted for the prevailing precarious conditions in the North, and work harder to improve them.

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He said knowing what caused the North to be where it is today, would encourage the youth to work harder to reverse its disadvantages.

Mr. Sulemana was speaking at a forum organised by the Dagbon Students Association of the University for Development Studies (UDS), Wa Campus, to take stock of its operations during the past year, brainstorm and come out with innovative programmes to help fight poverty.

He urged the youth to wage a crusade against illiteracy, saying, ?illiteracy and poverty are bed fellows, ? and that it was only through education that poverty could be eradicated.

The regional director urged students? organisations to hold Northern politicians accountable when they come to the people to ask for power, because they had failed them.

There are no tangible investments made to get students jobs, after completion of their education, he stated.

Mr. Sulemana also expressed regret that right now some pupils and students were still sitting on the floor and stools to have classes, while Northern politicians cared less about improving conditions in schools and health institutions.

?For instance, the Upper West Region has produced more doctors, but our hospitals are without doctors,? he said, adding, ?our own have refused to come and work at the hospitals.?

Mr. Sulemana appealed to the Media to support in marketing the North, to attract investors into areas that would help improve the living conditions of the people.

He bemoaned the manner funds for the Savanna Accelerated Development Authority (SADA), had been managed, and urged students? associations to demand for equity and accountability from public officers.

Mr. Sulemana urged students? organisations to work for peace in the communities, saying, without peace, no meaningful development would be achieved.

Some of the students expressed worry about the dying cultures in the North, and called for appropriate measures to be put in place to sustain indigenous cultures.

They also expressed disappointment at the way women had been excluded from participating in issues affecting them, and called for a change in that direction.

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