'Promote Peace In North'

The youth in the three northern regions have been urged to promote peace as the country gets set for the December general election.

A member of Yapei Kusawgu Constituency, Alhaji Amadu Seidu, said the youth, in particular, must educate their communities on the need to protect the already volatile stability in the three regions.

Alhaji Seidu was addressing the get-together and hand-over ceremony of the University of Cape Coast branch of the National Association of Gonjaland Students at the university last Saturday.

He said it behoves every citizen from any part of the three northern regions of the country to make conscious efforts to protect the relative peace in the region and indicated that the gap between the south and the north required that citizens from the north unite to promote peace and help to accelerate the development process.

He indicated that the registration and election process in the run-up to the December general election could threaten the peace in the area if efforts were not made to educate people on the election process and the need to remove all the challenges that could mar it.

He also said everyone, particularly the educated people from the area, had the responsibility of explaining the process to others to reduce tension to ensure peace in the area.

He also expressed concern over the outright sale of large tracts of lands to investors by some chiefs in the area and said the indigenes may be left with no land for agricultural purposes and building of houses.

The outgoing president of the association, Mr Jacob Ahiah, said the allocation of large tracts of land to nomads from some West African countries for cattle grazing was also a disturbing development in the area. He, therefore, called on chiefs in the area to check that practice.

The incoming president of the association, Asumah Abdul-Kadir, said the association would continue is membership drive on campus and also embark on educational tours.

He added that the new executive would also work to create social media platforms for effective interaction between past and present students and mobilise revenue to give interest-free financial support to needy students on campus.

Dr Ignatius Huhu Sirikye of the UCC Hospital who gave a lecture on Emotional Intelligence and Stress Management, said there was the need for everybody to develop emotionally and effectively to deal with stress and behave well, even when they are stressed up.

He also stated that knowledge and degrees were not enough for one to be successful and added that to able to fit into society and succeed, there was the need to develop one’s emotions.