{"id":320505,"date":"2017-05-18T17:05:20","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T17:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=320505"},"modified":"2017-05-18T17:05:20","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T17:05:20","slug":"govt-to-solve-yendi-water-crisis-bawumia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=320505","title":{"rendered":"Gov’t to solve Yendi water crisis – Bawumia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Government has promised to allocate three million Dollars for the Yendi water expansion project.<\/p>\n

Vice President, Dr. Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia made this known at the Dagbon Regent, Kampakuya-Naa Yakubu Abdulai Andani\u2019s palace in Yendi.<\/p>\n

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\nHe said government was much concerned about the Yendi perennial water crisis, hence the move to solve it.<\/p>\n

He commended the Yendi constituency Member of Parliament, \u00a0Alhaji Mohammed Habib Tijani for his constant reminder on the Yendi water situation.<\/p>\n

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The Vice President reiterated government\u2019s determination to fulfill the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) 2016 campaign promises.<\/p>\n

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According to him, government will continue to subsidize fertilizer and other farm implements to promote agribusiness.<\/p>\n

He unveiled government\u2019s plan to upgrade the Dagbon State Technical Institute into a model school.<\/p>\n

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The Vice President also visited the Abudu Regent, Boling-Lana Mahamadu Abdulai\u2019s palace.<\/p>\n

Dr. Alhaji Bawumia stressed the need for peaceful co-existence especially in the Northern Region to attract investors.<\/p>\n

He urged the chiefs and people of Dagbon to cooperate with government to permanently resolve the Dagbon chieftaincy conflict.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Dagbon Regent, Kampakuya-Naa Yakubu Abdulai Andani charged government to quicken its space on the water expansion project.<\/p>\n

According to him, successive governments in the past made similar unfulfilled promises.<\/p>\n

He also appealed to government to procure enough farm machinery and subsidized input for smallholder farmers.<\/p>\n

The Dagbon Regent raised alarm over armyworms invasion of farmlands in the Yendi Municipality.<\/p>\n

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He said immediate steps must be adopted to prevent its widespread to curtail food insecurity.<\/p>\n

He entreated government to readily buy smallholder farmers produce to enable them maximize profit.<\/p>\n

He commended security operatives in the Yendi Municipality for sustaining the peace there.<\/p>\n

The Abudus Regent, Boling-Lana Mahamadu Abdulai thanked government for taken steps to solve the myriad problems affecting residents of the Yendi Municipality.<\/p>\n

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By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Government has promised to allocate three million Dollars for the Yendi water expansion project. Vice President, Dr. Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia made this known at the Dagbon Regent, Kampakuya-Naa Yakubu Abdulai Andani\u2019s palace in Yendi. He said government was much concerned about the Yendi perennial water crisis, hence the move to solve it. He commended the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":320509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[389,3],"class_list":["post-320505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-top-stories","tag-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}