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<\/a><\/p>\nVice President Amissah Arthur emphasized the need for SADA and its collaborators to act as game changers to rapidly transform the Northern Savannah Ecological Zone.<\/p>\n
He lauded the current SADA management and Board\u2019s transformational agenda.<\/p>\n
He advised chiefs in the Northern Savannah Ecological Zone to make land acquisition less cumbersome to investors but however cautioned them against the wholesale of lands.<\/p>\n He said government was committed to intensify Private-Public-Partnership to make the Better Ghana agenda a reality.<\/p>\n SADA\u2019s CEO<\/strong> He added, \u201cSABIF 2015 and Tamale 2015 is one modest effort to draw attention to this zone not simply as a place for transfers and charity but economic giant that needs to be awoken.\u201d<\/p>\n According to Charles Abugri, the Northern Savannah Ecological Zone possessed 6.1 million hectares land suitable for the cultivation of cereals, legumes, tubers and cash crops but that 1.5 million land had been utilized.<\/p>\n \u201cThe SADA zone is a large market if we see the zone as a bridge to the southern part of Ghana as well as to the rest of the Guinea Savannah, our neighbors in the north: to harness this market, we make the ECOWAS protocols actually meaningful and SADA can facilitate these.\u201d<\/p>\n One of the principal speakers, Victor Koh from Singapore touched on all sectors of Singapore\u2019s economy including equitable justice delivery system, quality education, quality health delivery and affordable housing.<\/p>\n He attributed Singapore\u2019s infrastructural development successes to all inclusive governance.<\/p>\n He said all Singapore citizens have been empowered and given a stake to actively participate in national discourse.<\/p>\n Victor Koh proudly disclosed that the adult class in Singapore owned housing units because the government resolutely dealt with the nation\u2019s housing deficit.<\/p>\n He challenged leaders of developing countries to be focused and stop comparing their nations with the developed world.<\/p>\n Durbar of chiefs<\/strong> He said government would commit enough resources to eradicate extreme poverty and radically transform the Northern Savannah Ecological Zone.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nSADA\u2019s Chief Executive Officer, Charles Abugri explained the rationale behind the forum, \u201cThe five-days event has one main message which is that the Northern Savannah Ecological Zone has the potential to lift the growth and transformational potential of the entire country, make it a truly middle income country for all if the appropriate attention by the public and private sectors was given to addressing the infrastructure deficits and harnessing the immense productive potentials that lie unexploited to date.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nVice President Amissah Arthur later addressed a Durbar of chiefs at the Tamale Sports Stadium.<\/p>\n