Kukuo is one of the densely populated communities in the Tamale Metro Area of the Northern Region.
The area shares boundaries with the Tamale Teaching Hospital to the right and the Northern Regional Coordinating Council to the left.
[contextly_sidebar id=”Wr69Xx8IGnzBV789ZDIdyThEEzHN63pV”]The Ghana Senior High School (GHANASCO), Alma Matta of incumbent President John Dramani Mahama is also located there.
Four persons are vying for the Kukuo seat at the Tamale Metropolitan Assembly.
They are Abdulai Ziblim Hafiz, Lukman Sayibu Danjumah, Mohammed Awal Laminu and Adam Awal.
Abdulai Ziblim Hafiz is a 26 year old marketer and son of the chief of Lamashegu.
Lukman Sayibu Danjumah is a 29 software developer who doubles as a teacher.
Mohammed Awal Laminu is a 43 year old teacher while Adam Awal is a 41 year old driver.
Some residents of the area have raised two major concerns affecting their livelihood.
They complained about unhygienic environment and inadequate water supply.
One of them, Sheriff Alhassan said, “Kukuo has a lot of challenges and sanitation is key, so we are looking forward to elect accessible and result oriented person who will be able to fix our sanitation challenge and I will rally behind any candidate who will want to solve this sanitation problem.”
He added, “I also urge residents of Kukuo to come out strongly to support any accessible leader that will seek to address the sanitation challenge.”
Abdul Majeed Shiraz raised alarm over what he described as increasing theft in the area.
“We have had several theft cases here and I think the incoming assemblyman can work extra hard and probably by putting up streetlights on most of the streets.”
“You pass through some of the streets there isn’t streetlights and this facilitates the movement of the burglars to breakthrough people’s rooms and still their properties,” he stressed.
Abdulai Ziblim Hafiz, the 26 year old marketer and son of the chief of Lamashegu admitted that sanitation and water were the major challenges in the area.
“If you look at the water situation in Kukuo is very hard: they can get water once a week: the sanitation here too is very poor and so when I am voted to power I will rehabilitate the existing public toilets and build additional ones.”
Lukman Sayibu Danjumah, the 29 year old software developer who doubles as a teacher promised, “If I become the assembly man of the Kukuo electoral area the pipe opening system is midnight and I am going to make sure the system will be changed: on my records I have about one hundred and something houses in the area who are paying for water and they don’t benefit: I am assuring them that they will have free water flow seven days in a week.”
He lauded government’s National Sanitation Day exercise and promised to sustain it in the area.
“I am going to bring back the communal labour we used to know when we were growing up, is going to be active again: you can see that the current President has introduced the National Sanitation Day exercise every month and I am going to copy that style in my electoral area and I am assuring them that Kukuo will be one of the neatest and the best area in Northern Region.”
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By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah/citifmonline.com/Ghana