Upper East Regional Minister-designate unveils plans

Housing_PopulationDr Ephraim Avea Nsoh, Upper East Regional Minister designate, said among his major priorities would be agriculture, education and health.

Speaking to the Ghana News Agency in interview in Bolgatanga at the weekend, he said one of the greatest resources the region had was agriculture and that what was needed was to group the farmers, empower them to undertake large scale farming and find market for their produce.

Dr Nosh said although government, through the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) and the Northern Rural Growth Programme was working to boost the agriculture sector, particularly the construction of new dams and renovation of old ones in the region, there was still more to be done.

On education, he said it was the key to unlocking poverty in the region and that he had already established  Educational Support Fund at Vea for the students and would ensure that a regional one was established to cater for the brilliant but needy students.

Dr Nosh said he would work with the Ministry of Health and donor partners to ensure good incentive packages to attract doctors and health professionals to the region.

All the district assemblies would be tasked to provide good health facilities, office accommodation and good schools for the children of doctors and health professionals posted to the region, he said.

He said another area he would tackle is the empowerment of the youth and women groups since he had plans to look for donor funding to build their capacity to curb the rural urban migration.

Prior to his appointment, Dr Nsoh was the Head of Department, Department of Gur-Gonja Languages Education of the University of Education, Winneba.

He holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Ghana and Attestation (proficiency in French), Université de Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso among others.

Dr Avea Nsoh had over the years mentored a lot of young academics to take up the mantle of leadership in academia, public service and the private sector.

He had also provided educational advice and guidance for young people to attain their educational goals and promoted indigenous language development in Ghana through language policy planning support and material development.

He established 30 women groups into village savings and loans associations for the mobilization of financial resources for investment and business development to reduce poverty in Bongo and Bolga districts.

On his contribution to the  National Democratic Congress, Dr Nsoh had served  in various positions including being the Patron of TEIN of NDC, University of Education, Winneba, and was a member of party and member of parliament campaign programmes planning team among others.

When the GNA sampled the views of people in the region, majority of the people, civil society organizations, women groups and the youth association endorsed his nomination and pledged to work with him to bring about development to the region.

Source: GNA

3 Comments
  1. francis addae says

    Mr, the word is job. Job, job, job. Ghanaians have had enough education, health and agric lyrics. We need vocational schools to keep abreast with the current and emerging technologies. We need real research labs.
    You have my email, i can help u.

  2. David M. Tembil says

    Good visionary leader there,Dr Nsoh. For your Agriculture to succeed you must not only remove the de-silt many of the dams in the dams in the region but engage in aggressive RAIN HARVEST. You are well placed to bench mark from Burkina Faso. But it entails building dams over the Kola River, The White Volta), the Red Volta that passes by Nangodi and over many of the streams for Irrigation and water for our animals. The Engineers and architects in and from the region can be your source of Consultancy. Rain Harvest, Rain harvest and rain harvest to make Upper east green. Continue the Tree planting projects of Mr Ampofo.

  3. avea says

    the youth are ready to support you achieve your targets especially on agriculture. may God guide you through

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