OTI REGIONAL MINISTER CONFERS ON CHIEFS AND PEOPLE OF NKWANTA NORTH
The Oti Regional Minister, John Kwadwo Gyapong, on Tuesday February 11, 2025 paid a courtesy call on the chief, elders and opinion leaders of Kpassa traditional area in the Nkwanta North District of the region.
This was the first official movement of the minister after he resumed duty on Monday as the Minister in the region. Addressing the Chiefs and people gathered, Mr Gyapong underscored the need for peaceful coexistence with each other and pledged to ensure the people of Kpassa receive its share of the national cake. Read More
He continued that without tolerance peace cannot reign, adding that the absence of peace stifles development hence necessary for all and sundry to abide by law to promote peace in the area.
The Regional Minister reiterated the commitment of President John Dramani Mahama to complete the ongoing construction of the agenda 111 hospital at Kpassa which started by the erstwhile government aimed at ensure quality health service delivery in the district.
He said his outfit is poised to oversee the construction of the Kpassa – Nkwanta stretch of the Eastern Corridor road within the region for easy and smooth transportation of goods and service as well as open up the area for business.
“I promised you, we are going to construct the Kpassa roads for easy movement of people, no one can do anything to divert my attention from Kpassa,” he said.
He thanked the traditional leaders, opinion leaders and electorates for believing the message of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and voting massively for the party to secure victory in the just ended general election.
Mr Gyapong, however, disclaimed audio circulating in the mainstream and social media alleging his outfit made tribal and demeaning remarks against Konkombas somewhere last year prior to election.
He said the content of the audio is fabricated and should be treated with the necessary contempt it deserve insisting that he worked with Konkombas within the party for over 32 years and could not suddenly dislike Konkombas as suggested in the purported audio.
For his part the Paramount Chief of Kpassa Traditional Area, Ubor Tassan Konja VI, urged the Minister never to forget Kpassa adding that Kpassa faces several challenges ranging from, water, rural electrification, roads network, health service delivery and security as well as youth unemployment among others.
Ubor Konja VI tasked the Minister to as a matter of urgency collaborate with other stakeholders to solve the perennial water challenge to give the people of Kpassa portable drinking water.
