SADA Boss Outlines Number Of Development Programmes In B/A And Calls For Patience

The Northern sector of the Brong Ahafo Region is to benefit from the new development programmes of the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority SADA.

Speaking on Suncity Radio,on Friday morning, the Chief Executive Officer of SADA Mr. Charles Abugre said the Authority is now re-organizing itself to set its programmes going. He said the economic potentials of the SADA ecological zone is very huge and its approach needs serious planning and implementation. He explained that the first two years of SADA’s operations were frozen and recommenced after a new board and Chief Executive Officer were appointed.

He pointed out that the Brong Ahafo region had benefitted from its earlier programmes like tractor and fertilizer support for farmers in the northern sector of the region. He said to ensure a sustained development of the region, an office of SADA is being opened at Kintampo which the Brong Ahafo Regional Coordinating Council is to recruit its staff.

He further disclosed that a Coordinator Diana Dufie has already been appointed to collate ideas from B/A. Mr. Bugre disclosed that among the programmes envisaged for the Brong Ahafo Region are the development of the Bui irrigation project which will go a long way to help improve crops and aquaculture.

He also mentioned the development of cashew cultivation and processing and also the development of cashew cultivation and processing and also the development of tourism. He mentioned the generation of six megawatts of energy from the Kintampo Falls and also the development of the Monkey Sanctuary in the area. He said the Brong Ahafo is represented on the SADA board by Dr. Samuel Ameyaw.

Mr. Bugre urged people in the northern part of Brong Ahafo to exercise patience as the authority is gradually unlocking the economic potentials of the area. He said the process will be slow but sustainable. This whole conversation was necessitated by some residents of the Brong Ahafo Region who had raised concerns about the relatively snail’s pace of socio-economic development in the transitional area of the region, which falls within the northern ecological zone under the Savanna Accelerated Development Authority’s (SADA) umbrella.

According to them, despite the enormous economic potentials in the SADA zone of the region, especially agriculture and tourism, the area has not seen any significant development initiated by SADA.